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Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 3,255
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Kaskara/European blade
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5982 VOC blade http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6379 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 755
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Beautiful kris!!! POR MI LEI Y POR MI REI. In spanish now was POR MI LEY Y POR MI REY and in english FOR MY LAW AND FOR MY KING.
Congratulation Carlos |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
Posts: 9,694
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I don't think this inscription is written in either old Spanish or old Portuguese.
The use of the i in these cases is a 'modernism'; only 'recently' it replaced the y in Portuguese; in Spanish (Castillian) the y prevails. The word por may be either Spanish and Portuguese. The word mi will be only Spanish. On the other hand it doesn't make sense the use of the y in the middle of the phrase and the use of the i in Lei and Rei; it is either one or the other. It could be that the guy who wrote this inscription intended to write in Spanish; but he was familiar to 'modern' Portuguese. ... hope i made myself understood .
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