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Joshua R
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 Posted: Sun 20 Jun, 2010 8:46 pm Post subject: 13th Century Russian Sword Belts/Scabbards? |
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Continuing with my theme of a Scandinavian Crusader in the Baltic in the early to mid-13th Century....
Since my "character" is basically going to start out dirt poor (since I can only afford so much kit at a time. Starting with clothing, spear, dagger, helmet, shield, a bow, then on to a gambeson or aketon, maille and an axe), then the sword (an Albion Count) would be purchased in theater from an Imperial or Teutonic merchant (since such swords are apparently very German), I'm wondering about a Russian-style scabbard and sword belt of the period. Did they vary much from those used by the Crusaders in the Baltic and how likely (or not) would it be that a given merchant or craftsman in the Baltic might be of the Russian school of scabbard making rather than Western European?
Thank you!
" For Augustus, and after him Tiberius, more interested in establishing and increasing their own power than in promoting the public good, began to disarm the Roman people (in order to make them more passive under their tyranny).... "
-N. Machiavelli, The Art of War
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