Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - true or false: most viking blades where frankish

chevalier · 24th September 2008, 01:35 AM

i was about to say the same thing celtan just said. the arabs where known to have highly desired frankish swords above their own weapons (the only reason i can guess for this was that the frankish weapons where of better quality) and i think that is wy the carolingians forbade their export (at least to their biggest enemy, the abbasid/omyyad caliphates)

24th September 2008, 01:35 AM	#5
chevalier Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 119	i was about to say the same thing celtan just said. the arabs where known to have highly desired frankish swords above their own weapons (the only reason i can guess for this was that the frankish weapons where of better quality) and i think that is wy the carolingians forbade their export (at least to their biggest enemy, the abbasid/omyyad caliphates)