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Being a German native-speaker and not overly familiar with untranslated English literature I just recently came across the "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carrol and it answered many questions (for one "What IS the Jabberwocky?") but made me ask a few more. E.g. I discovered the "vorpal sword" which I know well from BG2 and other D&D sources among the fictious words of the poem.
So:
"When was the word vorpal first used in a fantasy* setting (book or RPG), is it taken from this poem (probably) and did it always (in Fantasy stories) describe a one-hit-kill weapon?"
Any thoughts on that?
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* of course I refer to "the arts commonly known as fantasy" (i.e. contains Elves, Dwarves and Orcs and happens in a kinda medieval setting). So the "Jabberwocky" itself (while funny) would not be a satisfying answer for me.
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