Re: Saws from Simon Miller on 2005-02-02 (Glorantha Digest Vol 11)

From: Simon Miller <simonmiller60_at_fsmail.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:10:52 +0100 (CET)

There's a very nice picture of a pair of Late Romans, sawing planks, in the Osprey "Late Romans" Book. They are using a 2 man saw on a large tree trunk.

Looks like very hard work to me!

Simon
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Message date : Feb 02 2005, 11:01 AM
>From : "Peter Metcalfe"
To : glorantha_at_rpglist.org
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Subject : Saws
Alison Place:

> On the subject of saws and forest-felling,

Given that a major elf bandit of the inhuman occupation was one saw-tooth Korvan (Cults Compendium p199), the prospect that Heortlings don't know what saws are strikes me as ludricrous.

> Firstly, while the Romans did have saws,

Not only did the Romans have saws but so did the Greeks - Perdix (or Talos), Daedalus's nephew, was supposed to have invented it after either seeing a snake's jaw or a fish's backbone.

--Peter Metcalfe

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