Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Classifying shashka--a serious discussion of typology

Gavin Nugent · 17th August 2016, 08:48 AM

I am all for study and collation of information, but why does a sword type need to be specifically put in a box with another and then fall under that swords name...

what's in a name?

What's with the name game?

Does this name game improve the character and pedigree of a sword, I think not!

Shall now the Sasanian guardless swords of the Neo Persian empire, whose lands that these swords being classified were once theirs, now be called Shashka too...

It's over complicating things...

Gavin

17th August 2016, 08:48 AM	#107
Gavin Nugent Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,818	I am all for study and collation of information, but why does a sword type need to be specifically put in a box with another and then fall under that swords name... what's in a name? What's with the name game? Does this name game improve the character and pedigree of a sword, I think not! Shall now the Sasanian guardless swords of the Neo Persian empire, whose lands that these swords being classified were once theirs, now be called Shashka too... It's over complicating things... Gavin Last edited by Gavin Nugent; 17th August 2016 at 12:10 PM.