04-29-2007, 12:05 AM
Thanks to both of you. It pretty much verified my opinion though its a bit misleading since the grip style was fairly common in the Merovingian Period, though I've never seen a curved sword with it. It is possible that it is either a remount or more likely that it shows that people had a much longer memory and familiarity with the past than we think they do. They must mean Hun as in Hungarian apparently and not Hunnish as in the Huns. i wonder how often such terminology leads to miscommunication.
Derek D. Estabrook