Sweet Lipps, naming of swords

Jim McDougall · 17th December 2022, 11:34 AM

The sword has often been termed affectionately the 'queen of weapons' and likely part of the well known convention of using the feminine pronoun 'she' for beloved inanimate things, cars, ships etc. in that sense.

In this case it seems more a euphemism for 'deadly' weapon used rather 'tongue in cheek', than an actual name for this particular sword.......in a sense like the much quoted movie phrase (referring to a gun)...'say hello to my little friend'.

Swords were indeed in select cases allegedly named by their owners, and of course most of these have been colorfully described in literature such as Excalibur, Joyuese, Tizona and many others belonging to historic or fictional characters.

The naming of swords in a personal sense would be quite a long discussion, but it is an interesting topic.

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17th December 2022, 11:34 AM	#2
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,191	The sword has often been termed affectionately the 'queen of weapons' and likely part of the well known convention of using the feminine pronoun 'she' for beloved inanimate things, cars, ships etc. in that sense. In this case it seems more a euphemism for 'deadly' weapon used rather 'tongue in cheek', than an actual name for this particular sword.......in a sense like the much quoted movie phrase (referring to a gun)...'say hello to my little friend'. Swords were indeed in select cases allegedly named by their owners, and of course most of these have been colorfully described in literature such as Excalibur, Joyuese, Tizona and many others belonging to historic or fictional characters. The naming of swords in a personal sense would be quite a long discussion, but it is an interesting topic.