03-24-2013, 02:02 AM
When I wrote The Demon's Door Bolt, I kept it historically grounded within the specific period of AD 499 to 500. The rest of the "tale" certainly hit some extremes, like gryphons flying in a classic World War I styled bombing raid, or Casca and his cronies killing an already-dead Caesar in deja vu all over again. 
One of my characters carried a pair of akinaki, one strapped to each leg, in what I thought would be a take-off on the American Old West, sort of like Wild Bill Hickock or Wyatt Earp. I never figured a steppe warrior would have worn a set in that fashion. WRONG! :woot:
So here's an illustration from Waldemar Ginters' Das Schwert der Skythen und Sarmaten in Sudrussland; aka The Swords of the Skytians and Sarmatians in South Russia, (1928)
[attachment=6787]IllusfmGinters003.JPG[/attachment]
:evil: :whistle:
One of my characters carried a pair of akinaki, one strapped to each leg, in what I thought would be a take-off on the American Old West, sort of like Wild Bill Hickock or Wyatt Earp. I never figured a steppe warrior would have worn a set in that fashion. WRONG! :woot:
So here's an illustration from Waldemar Ginters' Das Schwert der Skythen und Sarmaten in Sudrussland; aka The Swords of the Skytians and Sarmatians in South Russia, (1928)
[attachment=6787]IllusfmGinters003.JPG[/attachment]
:evil: :whistle:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
