Viking’s accidentally made a rudimentary form of steel when they tried to fuse the spirit of an animal or ancestor into a weapon. They would crush bones and fuse it into iron when forging weapons. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/norse-rituals?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
WTF Fun Fact – Viking’s Accidentally Made Steel
Vikings, not viking’s. A fact site should include correct spelling.
Where is that from? That is wrong on so many levels.
Archaeological evidence?
Pure iron was almost never forged. It always contains carbon to some extent, iron + carbon aka steel.