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Roger Hooper
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Posted: Tue 25 Feb, 2014 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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To go along with Widowmaker --- Daddyslayer
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Mark Moore
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Posted: Tue 25 Feb, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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You'll get a hoot out of this: My next sword, probably a Hanwei Rhinelander, will be named for a favorite puppy dog we recently lost by coyote attack.............Bunny Foo-Foo...........Yeah, I know. Sorry....Can't put a 'smiley-face' here. This was a child we lost, and she will be remembered. Maybe I'll just shorten it to "Feu''..........French, I believe, for 'fire'. McM
''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump
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Jeremy V. Krause
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Posted: Tue 25 Feb, 2014 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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It seems kind of silly to name a sword but that's just me.
I just call them what the manufacturers do. I have a custom sword from Patrick Barta which I call "my sword made by Patrick Barta".
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Chuck D.
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Posted: Tue 25 Feb, 2014 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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I really love the sword names from George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones):
Ice
Dawn
Lightbringer
Longclaw
All very simple and elegant.
I was going to appropriate 'Dawn', but I decided my new sword's name is 'Lamenta'..Latin for 'wailing' or 'cries of grief'
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Chuck D.
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Posted: Tue 25 Feb, 2014 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Another neat Latin name would be 'Clementia'..."forbearance"/"mercy"/"self-restraint"...there's a neat wisdom or irony in that.
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Neil Langley
Location: Stockport, UK Joined: 23 Jan 2006
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Posted: Tue 25 Feb, 2014 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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How about 'Guardian of riches' or 'Shepherd' - both their old English/Scots Gaelic visions are: Ewart
Neil
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Natalie Holkham
Location: London, England Joined: 25 Feb 2014
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Posted: Wed 26 Feb, 2014 3:13 am Post subject: |
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After fighting with my sword over several training sessions I have now given it the name Heavy Bastard! Or The Bastard Of Burden, because it's a little blade heavy and I do struggle to fight with it for over two hours at the moment! I am planning to buy a slightly lighter one soon! I know it's a slightly unconventional name but I like it all the same.
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Chuck D.
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Posted: Wed 26 Feb, 2014 7:26 am Post subject: |
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I changed my mind. I was going to name the new sword 'Lamenta'- Latin: "wailing, cries of despair" but I finally came up with something that follows the elegant theme I like in Game of Thrones so much...going to go with "Singer." I love it.
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Shahril Dzulkifli
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Posted: Sun 27 Apr, 2014 9:19 pm Post subject: What's a great name for a sword? |
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I think that Old Norse and Irish names are suitable for naming swords.
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”
- Marcus Aurelius
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Mark Moore
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Posted: Sun 27 Apr, 2014 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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If I ever get an Irish-hilted sword, it will be called O' Mordha......old Irish from which the modern Moore comes from. .........McM
''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump
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Robert Leach
Location: Manistee, Michigan Joined: 03 Jan 2014
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Posted: Tue 29 Apr, 2014 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Adfyd--Welsh for 'affliction' or 'misery', depending on the translation.
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Christine Munro
Location: Oxford Joined: 01 Jun 2007
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Posted: Thu 01 May, 2014 12:45 am Post subject: |
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I haven't named any of mine. I often get stuck choosing good names; then again, I have a history of choosing silly names if I can't think of something appropriate, so maybe I should do likewise with my swords! Daisy would be a nice name for my Gallowglass. Actually, maybe it wouldn't be such an inappropriate name for my Chevalier considering the shape of its pommel...
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Shahril Dzulkifli
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Posted: Thu 30 Oct, 2014 6:24 am Post subject: What's a great name for a sword? |
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Naming swords can be quite tough for me even though I don't own a sword.
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”
- Marcus Aurelius
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Harry Lindfors
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Posted: Fri 31 Oct, 2014 1:07 am Post subject: |
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I've only named one of my swords, the Albion Norman that I carry when I'm in my Templar reenactment kit. The sword is called "Trust". I just feel it's a wonderful way to show off my chosen character, to tap the pommel of my sword and say "this I trust".
The idea was shamelessly stolen from the original Conan The Barbarian- movie, where, at the beginning, Conan's father passes some wisdom to his son. Here are the words:
"Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky, but Crom is your god. Crom, and he lives in the earth. Once giants lived in the earth, Conan, and in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered, and the earth shook, and fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters. But in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield, and we who found it. We are just men, not gods, not giants, just men. And the secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline, for no one, no one in this world can you trust, not men, not women, not beasts... This you can trust. [points to his sword] "
A wonderful scene, I still get goosebumps when I see it... And here it is on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMG-FdCGtM
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Lance Morris
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Posted: Fri 31 Oct, 2014 4:39 pm Post subject: hello |
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Hey. I like that we are thinking.
Good names guys.
I choose one for my custom atrim.
Hellebore. Typically evil sounding and it's a poison.
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David Lewis Smith
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Posted: Sat 01 Nov, 2014 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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"Dave"
David L Smith
MSG (RET)
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William P
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Posted: Mon 03 Nov, 2014 5:06 am Post subject: |
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i wonder if a good name could be made in greek perhaps/... is there much tradition of named weapons in greece and byzantium?
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Sam Gordon Campbell
Location: Australia. Joined: 16 Nov 2008
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Robert Morgan
Location: Sunny SoCal Joined: 10 Sep 2012
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Posted: Fri 07 Nov, 2014 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Glory.
Also Heroine. No drug comments, please. The real meaning of the word.
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William Alexander Elder
Location: Dallas, Texas Joined: 08 Sep 2012
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Posted: Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:32 am Post subject: |
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I usually give weapons names from history or literature. I had a rapier called "Erzsebet" (as in Bathory), a stiletto named "Lucrezia" (Borgia), and kukri named "Billy Fish" (from the Man who would be King).
Of course, sometimes names just happen to things. Like my throwing axe called "Catch." No idea how that came about.
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