Big, Heavy Flyssa - wield like a shashka?

Emanuel · 22nd October 2015, 08:04 PM

That's unfortunate. Perhaps a youtube search will bring up something similar.

The flyssa scabbards have one or two belt loops so they were worn with a belt/sash. The oldest dated flyssa actually still has a belt with it: http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11842 .

I don't think that the small flyssa one was ever worn with the long one. Camille Lacoste-Dujardin's research suggests that they only started making the small ones after about 1850 when the long sword was obsolete and the French were finalizing their conquest of Algeria. Production shifted away from the Iflissen Kabyles and turned to small daggers and the curved flyssa types.

Emanuel

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22nd October 2015, 08:04 PM	#6
Emanuel Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,242	That's unfortunate. Perhaps a youtube search will bring up something similar. The flyssa scabbards have one or two belt loops so they were worn with a belt/sash. The oldest dated flyssa actually still has a belt with it: http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11842 . I don't think that the small flyssa one was ever worn with the long one. Camille Lacoste-Dujardin's research suggests that they only started making the small ones after about 1850 when the long sword was obsolete and the French were finalizing their conquest of Algeria. Production shifted away from the Iflissen Kabyles and turned to small daggers and the curved flyssa types. Emanuel