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Sean Flynt



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PostPosted: Mon 12 Jan, 2009 7:21 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote
The first image in my last post does have an unusually Kard-like taper. What works, works, no matter where it's "discovered".
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PostPosted: Sun 18 Jan, 2009 7:39 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote
M. Oroszlany wrote:
or possibly is still used in arab in the original meaning, and the name being attributed to that particular kind of weapon is a western thing.


My knowledge of Arabic is rusty but I think this is the most likely answer. After all, ask an Arabian about the meaning of saif and you'd get a very different opinion from the narrow (and sometimes contradictory) Western definitions.....
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