Great link Roland, thanks.
Fernando, yes although the sabre looked slim and light I could not tell whether it was specifically lighter than one for an equivalent male unit. Anything else written about it was lost in translation. Judging from some of the other posts perhaps size did not matter so much!
I like the daggers for 'women of the night' and perhaps one can imagine that wealthier madams had ones made to order.
Thanks for all the posts, interesting stuff. It would be good to see a picture of a patrem/small keris or a kwaiken/small tanto made for a woman.
And thanks, also, for those posts that remind us that a modern western view of women is too narrow to encompass geography and history.
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