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					Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
					
				 
				If you have not, then try to make a ’search’, and you will see there are quite a number of threads. The blades are mostly alike, some decorated and some not, but notice the very different hilt forms. 
			
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 That what interested me for quite some time. Indeed, the handles are quite different and fall into 3 types; what we see on the example here ( rounded pommel), the  ones with a lobulated pommel and the ones with no pommel at all ( more like kard).
 Is there any tribal/geographical connection?