German-made 12th Century Blade in Siberia

[fernando]

Interesting thread, Edster.
Let's copy it to the European forum; with some editing on the repeated paragraphs and some pictures included.



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[cornelistromp]

The sword is of Petersen type S and/or wheeler type III. The blade gently tapering with a fuller or near-uniform width is under Geibig's Classifiaction type 2.
similar silver inscriptions with the lazy S, S leaning backward appear on a sword in the National Museum in Copenhagen cf Oakeshott records of the medieval sword XI.3 and several swords discovered by Jarno Leppäaho in Viking graves in Finland cf j.Leppaaho Spateisenzeitliche Waffen aus Finland 1964 .
The hilt and the blade with this inscription (probably north european) are from the same period can be dated around 1075-1150.

best,
jasper

[theswordcollector]

Northern European forged for 100% and surely forged with the bones of fallen warriors. Amazing example.

[Matchlock]

Not exactly my field of expertise but I would call this a very fine and absolutely characteristic VIKING SWORD - this one really deserves being the symbol weapon and the emdodiment of our forum - instead of that ridiculous Tuareg item we've got now ...


Viking swords displayed at the Wikingermuseum in Hedeby.

Best,
Michael

Photo from Wikipedia.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Matchlock

... Not exactly my field of expertise but I would call this a very fine and absolutely characteristic VIKING SWORD - this one really deserves being the symbol weapon and the emdodiment of our forum - instead of that ridiculous Tuareg item we've got now ...

What a brilliant remark, Michael; can't call it diplomatic, can we ?

[Matchlock]

Originally Posted by fernando

What a brilliant remark, Michael; can't call it diplomatic, can we ?

No, Nando, my dear friend,

I'm afraid we can't!

No, seriously: many people I know are shocked by that horrible "logo" of official identification of our forum; it does not add in the least to the strictly academical standard that we are trying to achieve here.

Best,
Michl

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Matchlock

No, Nando, my dear friend,
I'm afraid we can't ...

Sure we can, dear Michl, as sure we should .
There certainly are a thousand more appropriate ways to opine on the forum 'logo' before we call it ridiculous.
... Ridiculous looks the King when he walks naked without noticing .

Originally Posted by Matchlock

No, seriously: many people I know are shocked by that horrible "logo" of official identification of our forum ...

I ignore the amplitude that your census embraces when you quote 'many people' but, remember, this European sub.forum is born a subsidiary of an Ethnographic main forum, and certainly there are 'many more people' who bear quite well with this logo. Perhaps for them that nice kaskara is not so horrible ... at all .

Originally Posted by Matchlock

... it does not add in the least to the strictly academical standard that we are trying to achieve here.:

I wouldn't take it for granted that, the 'strictly academical' standard 'you' are trying to achieve is something 'we' all others aim for. Don't let it look like a rule that an academical degree is the demand for participating in the forum. There is a lot of place in here for people aiming to less pompous ranks; let's not scared them off .

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