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Originally Posted by ariel
So, gentlemen, is Kaskara a descendent of the early European swords (you know, the crusaders story) or of early pre-islamic Arabian swords?
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The blade certainly looks it descended from the old, pre-medieval arab swords, and probably with a connection with crusader swords too, as those two styles of swords, arab and crusader (early crusades, that is), were very similar in shape. As for the hilt, we have no existing arab blades with their original hilts on, all were re-hilted by the Ottomans, except for a few syrian swords, whose hilts do not look like the kaskara's.