10-25-2010, 08:40 AM
Nice examples indeed Dan!Very similar shape, eastern traditions, etc. But these weapons cut on the outside and the scimitar (yatagan) cuts on the inside.
Anyway all that trip along the sables - swords history is not gonna get us anywhere.
So let's bet back to the super-weapon.
1. It is more likely that the falx evolved from a tool but by the time of Dacian wars it was a weapon.
2. the Romans didn't call it falx because it was one, but because it look like one. (they have never seen before a weapon like that so they adapted a name for it)
(dolabra was found in military contexts, so is a military tool)
am I not annoying? :twisted:
Anyway all that trip along the sables - swords history is not gonna get us anywhere.
So let's bet back to the super-weapon.
1. It is more likely that the falx evolved from a tool but by the time of Dacian wars it was a weapon.
2. the Romans didn't call it falx because it was one, but because it look like one. (they have never seen before a weapon like that so they adapted a name for it)
(dolabra was found in military contexts, so is a military tool)
am I not annoying? :twisted:
