Dime el Aterro

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by callumm

I also have a sword with one of these aterro blades, this one is a basket-hilted backsword (non-highland).

This one has another word in front of the others. It's not clear what it says, but to my eyes it looks like it might be 'Alisandro'.

So would this be something like Alisandro says (this sword) pulls down?

Gavin have you seen the inscription with this word in other forms?

Hi Callumm,

I missed this post previously.

I have not until now seen this extra mark but I would like to bring something to light about this sword blade you present, something that has perhaps been overlooked in the discussion.

To my eye, this looks to have come from an Indian sword back to a EU hilt type. Look at the shadow of wear left on the blade, it is typical Indian Khanda langet marks and what looks like to be a filled hole where a rivet would typically be.

Gavin