| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Ever since the late Tary?? ??bayashi and Atushiko Yoshida published their seminal???and, unfortunately, still untranslated???book Tsurugi no Kami, Tsurugi no Eiyu, or Sword Gods and Sword Heroes, in 1981, it has become abundantly clear that sword-related gods and heroes are a fundamental feature of Eurasian mythology and folklore, from Western Europe to Japan.1 A year later (Littleton 1982), I att
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