I have finally found some detail in notes and would like to correct the speculative comments I made in my earlier posts.
Apparantly this gold mounted sword shown by Sidney, with the feathered mounts is likely one of a number of these swords, from 5th-6th century AD with northern Iran noted as likely origin.
The one I mentioned, which is in gold mounts is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and is total of six in gold; there are two in silver, making a total of 8. It is noted that these are close enough in style to have come from the same workshop, of likely princely status.
Of the total, five are in Switzerland, one (noted) is in Paris at the Louvre, and one is at the museum of Tenri University in Tokyo.
The sword in the Metropolitan is double edged, as are the others.
There is however another in a private collection in New York, in which the badly corroded blade is suggested to be single edged (from Xrays taken) as well as by presumption of writers by the shape of the hilt and slightly curved blade. This one, if considered one of the overall type, would make a total of nine known.
These were apparantly cavalry swords, the quickdraw P mounted suspensions reaffirmed.
The feathering and scaled designs in the motif are noted as of style seen in Hun jewelry from Hungary of the period, as the eagle was a tribal symbol with the Huns. Although these are not specifically considered Hun swords, the styling is 'of the type' so in this period may have associations. Apparantly Huns of the period wore a long double edged sword on the left side and a single edged short sword at the right, and these were often en suite.
These comments are found in "Waltharius", one of the Nibelungen cycle epics in Latin by a Swiss monk in 10th century.
This type arrangement is compared to 17th century Hungarian hussars wearing a sabre on the belt, and estoc on the saddle under the leg on the right (Nickel, 1973).
Regarding the original question, there appear to be a total of eight of this type sword of the same period, perhaps even same workshop. The blades, though in varying degree of compromised condition are noted to all be double edged.
Another sword of slight variation, but decidedly close enough in form to be plausibly included in the group has what appears to be a single edged blade..perhaps later version with the noted feature variations suggesting same.
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