Nobody, but I wonder if some of those brls didn't make their way east to Russia. There may eventually have been a 'damascus road' from Russia to Prussia to England?
BTW: For some interesting history of steel development world wide see
http://met.iisc.ernet.in/~rangu/text.pdf
They report that Russian blacksmiths were making Wootz/Bulat in the 1500s. Maj. Gen. Pavel Anossoff (or Anasoff?) reproduced Bulat again in 1841.

Last edited by revdocdrew; 12/28/07 10:52 PM.
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