I'm horrified by my imagination. I figured out "The Viking Technique"

[The Doctor.]

It requires glass.

Or something harder, but back in the day, glass would have done it.

I thank the sky that no one knows what the hell "The Viking Technique" is around here... but I love posterity.

[petronius]

1. I'm sure the Vikings had a technique for pretty much everything

What is it that you've figured out? :shrug:

[mcctatas]

2. for tattooing?

[XemaSab]

3. Please share!

FYI: My prized posession USED to be my (insert ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL species) skull here, but now my new prize is a canine tooth from my dog, removed surgically two days ago following a NASTY accident incurred during a fight with my other dog.

So yeah, I can deal with gruesome. :D

[The Doctor.]

4. It's something Tanith Lee suggested in a book...

One of the characters literally opened a man up by his ribcage in hand-to-hand combat.

That's right... tore him open. Naturally, the victim looked down and spent a little while dying of shock.

For years I tried picturing every possible way to do it. I've had lots of training, but this just seemed beyond my imagination. Until last night.

It hit me... glass.

For some time I tried to figure out what kind of 'hidden toy' could facilitate such a maneuver. But the scoring of the sternum or insertions just couldn't be done with something merely as hard as metal.

It has to be glass.

Mounted, just a one-inch piece, on a bracer, dragged (quickly and viciously) down the chest during an arm lock, one savage blow, and riiiip!

Metal of their time just wasn't hard enough to score the ribcage enough to make it susceptible.

Why do I think of this shit?


Meanwhile, I was also wondering whether or not glass could be made without flaws for 100% efficient force distribution. But that's another story.