Dying With A Blade Has Never Been Romantic… Unfortunately!

Movies portray battles as glorious, but they were quite gory and brutal

Battle Scene Bhagwat Purana, Brooklyn Museum

Films often glorify medieval battles, but fighting with bladed weapons was scary. The words that best describe them are slicing, chopping, cutting, cleaving, incising, and piercing. These words today identify with the job of a postmortem surgeon.