Dear Bernard Cornwell I recently read your book the winter king, and enjoyed it very much. One thing though, which I don’t know if it is due to the translation into Danish, but as a blacksmith I found the description of the making of swords very hard to swallow.. one cannot cast a sword, they are forged from steel. Cast iron is an invention of the industrial revolution, and thus only a couple of hundred years old. Subsequently one cannot melt a sword into liquid metal, at least not then. In my eyes the story suffers greatly from the lack of this basic knowledge, that I’m sure any bladesmith will be able to tell you much more about. best wishes Jokum Lind Jensen