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Old 11th October 2008, 09:49 AM   #10
Gavin Nugent
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Thumbs up Good point Jim

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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
BTW, has anyone else ever thought about how much these hilts look like ancient Celtic anthromorphic hilts?

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Jim
Good point Jim,

I beleive over all there is something specific historically with Celtic influences in Northern African weaponry. One can also look at the Flyssa, put two back to back and you have the same shape as the Celtic swords.
here are just a couple of links for comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_sword
http://www.oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=62

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