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Norlyn C




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PostPosted: Mon 26 Feb, 2007 2:25 pm    Post subject: Looking for Info on Hunnish Swords...         Reply with quote

Does anyone have any links to the web on Hunnish Swords from the Period of Attila? I havent been able to find much. Anything such as Pics, Specs (including weight, length, etc.) would be very helpful, thanks!

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Lafayette C Curtis




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PostPosted: Mon 26 Feb, 2007 6:37 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Well, that's mostly because there are few or no swords that we have been able to attribute without doubt to the Huns. I'd expect them to have a very eclectic array including both the Chinese models they absorbed at the beginning of their migrations and the spathae of the Germanic tribes and the Roman provincials they had conquered. Maybe you could start from there.
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Werner Stiegler





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PostPosted: Tue 27 Feb, 2007 6:26 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I've read in "Das Gold der Barbarenfürsten" that this one was found in a hunnish grave of the migration periode.

Edit: The image's too big to be attached?

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PostPosted: Tue 27 Feb, 2007 6:37 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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Hisham Gaballa





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PostPosted: Wed 28 Feb, 2007 3:48 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Werner Stiegler wrote:
I've read in "Das Gold der Barbarenfürsten" that this one was found in a hunnish grave of the migration periode.

Edit: The image's too big to be attached?



Interesting sword that, it looks a lot like a Sassanid sword, and i wonder if it is actually a captured Sassanid sword. Manouchehr's your man where Iranian weapons are concerned.

BTW, posting thumbnails is fine with me, I do it all the time. It allows you to attach bigger pictures. Happy
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Manouchehr M.





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PostPosted: Wed 28 Feb, 2007 3:59 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Werner Stiegler wrote:
I've read in "Das Gold der Barbarenfürsten" that this one was found in a hunnish grave of the migration periode.

Edit: The image's too big to be attached?



Excellent post thank you for sharing the picture. Indeed there was lots of mutual infleunce between the Sassanians and the Huns due to constant warfare. In my book, I show excavated early Sassanian swords with a crossguard. As you might know these were carried via scabbard slide system. The later ones with two P-shaped scabbard suspensions system was probably a later Hunnish influences. Ideas about the meaning of the feather pattern also differ. On swords with P-shaped scabbard suspension system, you can see this. They are related to Simorg or Varagn or Varharan or Bahram that is mentioned in Varharan Yasht in the Avesta as well. Some also say that the Huns also used the same feather pattern grid system as evidenced on one of the excavated Hunnish swords as you show in the picture. The interesting feature is that they have crossguards as later Sassanian swords did not have a crossguard that had this feather pattern. At least not the extant example in museums in Iran and Europe and USA.

Very interesting. Thank you very much for sharing.

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Manouchehr

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