User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Qin Shihuangdi versus Attila the Hun/@comment-4476906-20120307235202/@comment-4328703-20120308124432

it was names by the Romans because the Huns were illiterate, the Romans called it the sword of mars because on the battlefield, Attila looked almost invincible, so they thought he HAD to have some divine intervention. and i agree, the SOM was probably not made of plessite, more like metal found in a rock that didn't look quite normal, but were still left to speculate