Edged arms in Varazdin castle

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Originally Posted by Victrix

My translation might be a bit dodgy. Not sure there were special swords as standard issue to crusaders. I think the museum description meant more a sword likely to have been used by crusaders. Which is fair given that it was found in their organised centre. The Knight Hospitallers often came from the high nobility and can be expected to have been armed with high quality arms. Or as you say the sword might have belonged to a secular visitor to their centre. Who really knows.

You translated it right, museum indeed did write exactly Crusader sword.
As it belonged to crusaders.
Museums as far as Croatia is in picture, made a bunch of mistakes, and wrong atributions, or exact atributions that cant be proven in any way.

In Zagreb two history museum ex curators wrote books on yatagans and they write a bunch of noncenses and wrong stuf about production of them.

In Split museum they claim and they are proud that they have two “oldest” yatagans from 15 and 16 century and they claim that in their books, exhibitions atc. And those yatagans are Albanian made (Prizren) low quality silver, early 20 century yatagans with false year engraved, meant to scam collectors of antique weapons in those days.

Today curator of history museum doesent make diference between butter knife and kard.

And the list goes on.
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