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Old 30th October 2006, 04:21 PM   #10
tom hyle
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AFAIK the Moorocan swords are, like these S. Arabian/Swahili versions, natively known as saif/sayf. Certainly the relation between the two types is undeniably very close indeed, and there seems to be a certain amount of sharing with other Arabian sabres and those guardless Berbese ones that commonly have a hole thru the pommel.
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