Jon Mattson

Jon Mattson
Eagle Ceremony

Friday, April 11, 2008

Ref The Sly

I thought that it was comical that Ref had a ship in his fortress that had wheels on it, and that they used it to escape. Perhaps this is a bit of imagination on the writers part, it doesn’t seem very practical, but it is cool nonetheless. But I guess that it is plausible to an extent, in the “unconventional” manner that Ref goes about things, and his out of the box thinking, I think that it is plausible, unlikely, but possible that this invention may have actually existed. I also thought that it was interesting that Ref claimed to never have crafted a ship, yet on his first try he made a grand ship, perhaps this is his “out of the box” thinking. The saga references several times that his fortifications looked like they were made of one large piece of wood, not a bunch of slabs, I think that this was his revolutionary out of the box thinking showing through. He pursued things in an unconventional manner and because so it awed the people of his time.

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