rambling about cold iron
Channel: Wutaz Kettlepot
Date: 2019-09-15

In this video I ramble and sound awkward while exploring the high-fantasy trope of "cold iron" and all of the real-life metallurgy that's related to it.

The presentation was inspired by The Armored Skeptic's "Under The Helmet" videos, focusing on a static avatar with just a few non-animated changes so that I can make a video quickly and easily when visual content isn't very important. This style might allow me to keep uploading videos on a weekly basis after I run out of already-mostly-finished material, but sooner or later I will need to slow down. Considering that, my YouTube debut strategy might be entirely backwards.


Here are some references that I used for researching this video:

Ferrous Friend or Foe? How Iron Became the Enemy of Fairy Folk - #FolkloreThursday
http://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-archaeology/ferrous-friend-foe-iron-became-enemy-fairy-folk/#sthash.von6FxgR.dpbs

TIL "Cold Iron" isn't a real thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/43nlwc/til_cold_iron_isnt_a_real_thing/


might as well throw this in:
Mineralogy and Petrology of Unique Native-Iron Basalts from Northern Siberia
http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1245&context=pursuit
This page talks about how native/telluric iron occurs in tiny grains in places other than Disko island.

I forgot my source for the carbon content of the iron boulders of Disko island.