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Originally Posted by kulbuntet
I have some nice examples on the krisdisk of Jensen. From Balmbangan/north east Jawa, some of them date 17th cent.But do you think before the arival of islam there were no keris on bali or lombok?
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Of course there were keris in Bali before the arrival of Islam, but i suspect that the blades looked very much the same as the keris that also existed in Jawa at the time. Bali was, afterall, a part of the Mojopahit empire at one time so i would imagine that the kraton pakem for keris flowed from Jawa to Bali, not the other way around.
