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Old 26th December 2006, 02:46 PM   #11
FourBlades
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Default Converting spears to swords

Somewhere I read that warriors were not allowed to carry their spears into European settled cities in Africa, so they cut off the shafts and carried them as swords or knives instead. Many of those I have seen have thin, solid tangs like swords and not like converted spears. Does anyone have one that has a socketed tang?

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