Swords in Art -- what is this?

[mariusgmioc]

Originally Posted by colin henshaw

Here is a fanciful painting by the sixteenth century Elizabethan artist John White of a "Pictish Woman" (European Iron Age). She is wearing some sort of Eastern European scimitar type sword...

John White accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh's early attempts to colonise North America and produced some of the first depictions of Native Americans.

I always suspected that the Kilij originated in the Scottish Highlands... some 2000 years ago...

Now I have the irrefutable proof that my suspicion was well founded!


PS: Now, even the origins of the Ottoman crescent can be traced back to the old Picts (just have a look a the lady's pendant).