Another stab at flyssa origins

[fearn]

That's a neat knife too.

As for the one I showed, I'd actually noted the knives the Sardinians were using on an episode of <i>Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations</i> and looked it up on the web.

The one thing that *is* somewhat relevant to the flyssa origin story is that these deep bellied, straight backed, long-tipped knives keep showing up in the Mediterranean. The Sards have them as kitchen and pocket knives, the Kabyles have a similar design on the flyssa, the rhomphaia (at least in Roman times) could be similar, and so on. Should we include the yataghan as well?

Joking aside, it appears to be a useful design, and I wouldn't be surprised if the talibon and the Hmong kitchen knife weren't independently origins of the design, brought about by smiths trying to make a basic knife more useful by extending the point and deepening the belly.

Best,

F