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and Dagger to the Back of the Shoulder rhapsody89 wrote in
little_details The setting is in Nottingham Castle, England, in
1196 during a siege. A character receives a slash to the side,
just below the ribs, with a sword and has a dagger thrust into
the back of his shoulder nearly simultaneously. Is it possible
to survive an attack like this and if so how would the wounds be
treated? What would the damage be?  I’ve googled ‘sword wounds
to the side’, ‘surviving a sword wound’, ‘treatment of sword
wounds in medieval times’. I’ve gone through the tags on here
that I thought might provide answers but I didn’t see anything
particularly specific to what I needed. Maybe I’m just bad at
google-fu.  EDIT: Woops! The character in question is wearing a
light leather jerkin. The sword I believe is a broad sword (not
for certain but I think its right) and the blow would be a
glancing as someone s