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Why change to the Spatha?
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Quote:Okay, I can accept Siddorn needs to be treated with caution (although treating people wit hcaution can sometimes need to be treated with caution in itself Tongue wink: ).

As I know the sagas, I tend to look at it in the same way as I look at statements that someone "ripped their maille apart" (as in physically ripping a suit of maille apart, not "ripping it off" in modern parlance) to run or swim away, or that people swim a few hundred feet underwater in full armour, or that certain "bow-strong" kings shot war arrows to a distance of over two kilometeres (which would exceed turkish arrow records as recorded in the 16th century with flight arrows and bows considered too strong to use in war effectively) - not a quote necessarily meant to be taken entirely literally. :wink:

But heavens, of course sword quality varied greatly, or some blades (such as the Ulfberth ones) seemingly being particulary valuable. I just think it is a pretty long leap from a single possibly rhetorical line in Kormak's Saga to it being a common problem with viking age weapons.

Siddorns book is not all bad; I'd certainly recommend it for the interested. It is, whoever, more a "compendium of reenactor's knowledge" (which can mean both great practical experience and some horrid misconceptions) packaged as a book on viking weapons and warfare than I'd like.
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Why change to the Spatha? - by Celtic505 - 10-20-2007, 03:42 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Sean Manning - 10-20-2007, 06:03 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew Amt - 10-20-2007, 07:29 PM
Spatha - by Paullus Scipio - 10-20-2007, 08:03 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew - 10-20-2007, 11:40 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Celtic505 - 10-21-2007, 02:55 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Iagoba - 10-21-2007, 08:27 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Ironhand - 10-21-2007, 10:43 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Iagoba - 10-21-2007, 11:31 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Mitra - 10-21-2007, 03:39 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by arklore70 - 10-21-2007, 04:18 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by stevesarak - 10-21-2007, 07:12 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Ironhand - 10-21-2007, 10:07 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew - 10-21-2007, 10:14 PM
Roman stature - by Paullus Scipio - 10-21-2007, 10:43 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Felix - 10-22-2007, 04:45 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew Amt - 10-22-2007, 02:17 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-22-2007, 02:53 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Natuspardo - 10-22-2007, 05:19 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Felix - 10-22-2007, 06:09 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by stevesarak - 10-23-2007, 02:56 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew Amt - 10-23-2007, 02:29 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by stevesarak - 10-23-2007, 03:13 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew - 10-24-2007, 11:18 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-25-2007, 08:13 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Hugh Fuller - 10-25-2007, 02:53 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-25-2007, 09:23 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Hugh Fuller - 10-25-2007, 09:47 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-25-2007, 10:58 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-25-2007, 11:11 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Endre Fodstad - 10-26-2007, 03:33 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew Amt - 10-26-2007, 04:19 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-26-2007, 05:03 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Robert Vermaat - 10-26-2007, 10:20 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-26-2007, 10:58 PM
Spatha - by Paullus Scipio - 10-27-2007, 12:14 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Endre Fodstad - 10-27-2007, 10:30 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 10-27-2007, 10:39 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by john m roberts - 10-27-2007, 04:48 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Endre Fodstad - 10-27-2007, 05:22 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Robert - 10-27-2007, 07:00 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Endre Fodstad - 10-28-2007, 08:33 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Robert - 10-28-2007, 03:32 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Endre Fodstad - 10-28-2007, 04:09 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew Amt - 10-28-2007, 07:18 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Matthew - 10-29-2007, 02:13 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Eleatic Guest - 04-14-2009, 03:19 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Paullus Scipio - 04-15-2009, 02:17 AM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Tarbicus - 04-15-2009, 06:11 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Dante - 04-15-2009, 06:36 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Paullus Scipio - 04-15-2009, 10:34 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by Druso - 04-16-2009, 09:15 PM
Re: Why change to the Spatha? - by geala - 05-07-2009, 07:49 AM

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