The beautiful snake (palash)

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Interesting, I'm guessing that that is a very early sabre? Where's it from and how did it end up in that state?

It looks like the ritual destruction of swords found in Viking burials or bog deposits...

Looks like someone didn't have an appreciation for Turkish (?) sabers :p

Addison, from what I gathered talking with Lee Jones back at our October round atble this practice of bending or deforming swords which goes back to the iron age at least is a ritualized "killing" of the decased owners sword so that it can "Cross over" with him to the next life. Dr. Jones has a 1st century celtic long sword that had been bent twice (inot an S) and at some point in atiquity straightened and a collector friend of mine has an early celtic sword that was broekn into 4 pieces. Nichola's sword is the most extreme bending deformation i've seen.

That's really interesting, thank you for telling me.

Beauty

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I with you agree, I think it Hungarians!!!