12-29-2014, 09:28 PM
The Falcata swords were made very well too. I have heard that the Spanish buried pieces of steel in the ground and then pulled them out to make sword blades from them, the dirt corroding the weak steel from them.
Bryan, the word falcata is a more modern worn and one of the only historical references is in Seneca's De Beneficiis (5:24) where he writes about the words of a veteran in court pleading his case in front of Julius Caesar:
"Nor would you recognize that helmet if you saw it: it was split by a Hispanian saber (machaera Hispana)."
The "Hispanian saber" here seems to be the falcata.
Bryan, the word falcata is a more modern worn and one of the only historical references is in Seneca's De Beneficiis (5:24) where he writes about the words of a veteran in court pleading his case in front of Julius Caesar:
"Nor would you recognize that helmet if you saw it: it was split by a Hispanian saber (machaera Hispana)."
The "Hispanian saber" here seems to be the falcata.
Regards, Jason
