Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Some observations about the so called Guduf swords

Yvain · 9th May 2020, 08:53 AM

Thank you for your kind words Edster, I always feel like my English gets worse the longer I write

Thanks for linking Iain post, it is indeed one of the few places I had seen this type of swords dicussed before, when I started researching them.

Interesting to note that this type was attributed to the indefinite "kirdi" group before the Guduf attribution was proposed.

We can also link this conversation : http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=Guduf, in which one of those swords was initially described as "Fulbe" (which would make sense, as it seems like they were used in Fulbe communities), and was collected in Cameroon near the Central African Republic.

9th May 2020, 08:53 AM	#3
Yvain Member Join Date: May 2017 Location: France Posts: 170	Thank you for your kind words Edster, I always feel like my English gets worse the longer I write Thanks for linking Iain post, it is indeed one of the few places I had seen this type of swords dicussed before, when I started researching them. Interesting to note that this type was attributed to the indefinite "kirdi" group before the Guduf attribution was proposed. We can also link this conversation : http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=Guduf, in which one of those swords was initially described as "Fulbe" (which would make sense, as it seems like they were used in Fulbe communities), and was collected in Cameroon near the Central African Republic.