Patrick Newman

"Blessed Are The Amputees"

The Swedish Historical Society recently sent a thank you note to the ax-makers at Gränsfors Bruk.

It reads, "Thank you for giving our ancestors the tool to cut our country free from wilderness, wildlife, and frostbite.

"If we weren't a nation descended from the fingerless and toeless, we may not be a nation at all."

To them we say, it's true.

And while it's not always pretty,

history had to be made one cut at a time.

Gränsfors Bruk.

Makers of axes that made Swedish history.

"The Battle of Aclea"

Though little is known of the Nordic Battle of Aclea, it is assured that the sharpness of the Vikings' axes played no small role in their victory.

For cutting trees into lumber for their boats.

For cutting lumber into arrows for their quivers.

For cutting heads into skulls for decorating their cottages.

It's true.

And while it's not always pretty, 

history had to be made one cut at a time.

Gränsfors Bruk.

Makers of axes that made Swedish history.