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Who, that messer looks nasty. Kinda reminds me of those elven swords in LotR, probably where they got the idea from.

I was in a thread discussing swords on another forum, and at one point decided to gather as many different deffinitions for swords as I could. Anyone care to look over them and tell me what I missed? Arming Sword - This is a one handed sword, shorter than the longsword, double edged, that was used b...

Good point, I hadn't considered that. Same thing happens in archaic english. Oh well, I guess in that case spelling doesn't matter too much, as long as other people can understand what we're talking about.

...You're happy because you finally got your first bruise in practice. (That's me.)

Maybe I'll be able to form a better opinion once I see some of the manuscripts for myself. I haven't actually seen much of the old spelling for myself. I'll have to ask my dad, he had a friend in germany teach him how to read the old german writing, and not the printed gothic either, but the real ha...

...you have ever been laying on the floor with an aching head wondering why you haven't taken the time to explain to your five year old son the difference between a waster and a padded sword. ...if on the very first day of Little League Baseball practice the coach pitches a ball to your son to judg...

I haven't been studying long enough to contribute to the conversation. And I don't mean to seem petty or nitpicking, and I don't want anyone to be offended, but I just thought you may be interested that the words shlaudern and gayslen are actually spelled "shläudern" and "geiseln"...