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    anyone translate the inscription?

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    German Executioner’s Sword dated 1613, inscribed “ET VERBVM CARO FACTVM EST” ('And the Word became Flesh')...

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    Beheading while the victim knelt, head erect, was the form of execution reserved for people of high status. The traditional axe and block was used for lesser folks and hanging for the commoners.

    The axe led to some messy, botched executions; read about Mary, Queen of Scots execution. Because of the opportunity for such messy ends, Henry VIII imported a French executioner when he had Anne Boleyn beheaded.

    I'm still puzzled by this. It seems to me that a vertical stroke with an axe would be easier to control than a horizontal stroke with a heavy, two-handed sword.

    Execution methods have suffered from messy mistakes throughout their history. Only the guillotine is reliably quick and certain. Strange that beheading, so long out of fashion, remains the method least likely to cause the victim undue suffering.
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    Great steel to have survived this long. Must be kept in a special environment.

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    Any bladed execution with the exception of the guillotine was usually finished with a knife.

    Typically only a Katana, of all the swords can carry a sharp enough edge and has the cutting geometry, to make a clean single stroke beheading.



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