Am Dienstag, 21. März 2006 20:08 schrieb Johannes Trimmel: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, N McCarty-Eigenmann wrote: > > 20 - 30 lbs? > > > > http://www.truefork.org/DragonPreservationSociety/Swordheavy.php > > > > McE > > I have heared once that at some timeperiod really big ceremonial swords > were made, that had been carried in front important people at parades. > Such swords might be the source of that rumor.
That's quite possible. There is one such ceremonial sword dating to the 16th century in the Army museum in Istanbul (it probably comes either from a German context in Siebenbürgen or from the Hungarian court) and the accompanying text has the usual nonsense about Western knights hewing about with these monsters until they were felled by the arrows of nimble janissaries. But the quality of all text in Istanbul's museums is hit-or-miss, anyway. Volker ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
