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Originally Posted by The Might
I own two 600 year swords from Transylvania with inscriptions on their blades
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Well, that is something! You really can afford to be a bit proud of them... Great!
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Originally Posted by Lommy
Anyway, ahem, I do have a short bow and five broken arrows made by my aunt's husband when I was nine or something like that. They're really ME'ish.
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Yeah. My sister's husband is a smith and has a go for this kind of stuff (mostly to the hunter-gatherer cultures, the plains indians and the japanese culture).
At summertime we make quarterstaff-fights with weapons he has made from special wood in our summer-cottage. It's fun even though it really hurts badly when you let the other surprise you or make even a tiny mistake... But that's the way to learn!
Mostly these fights take place during the nights when everything is light here in Finland. It can be a sunrise-match at 02AM in the middle of an awakening nature beside the lake. Somehow I love it even though my sensible side says it's just plain stupid...
But even if the weapons we use are not centuries old, they're real in a way that they are made in accordance with the techniques and the raw-materials of some earlier times.