Where to buy an middle-late byzantine cruciform spathion?

[Benjamin Parker]

Where would I get a very very high quality and very very accurate middle to late byzantine cruciform spatha or something very very similar? so similar it would fool all but the best.

[LafayetteCCurtis]

Just get a Carolingian/Viking era European sword. At worst you'd be able to pretend you're a Varangian, while at best...well, since the Byzantines began hiring "Frankish" (mostly Norman) mercenaries on a large scale in the 11th century, and especially after the First Crusade, Byzantine and Western European gear began to resemble each other more and more, and the sword was one of the artifacts where this increasing resemblance was the most obvious.