Big, Heavy Flyssa - wield like a shashka?

Emanuel · 22nd October 2015, 08:04 PM

That's unfortunate. Perhaps a youtube search will bring up something similar.

The flyssa scabbards have one or two belt loops so they were worn with a belt/sash. The oldest dated flyssa actually still has a belt with it: http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11842 .

I don't think that the small flyssa one was ever worn with the long one. Camille Lacoste-Dujardin's research suggests that they only started making the small ones after about 1850 when the long sword was obsolete and the French were finalizing their conquest of Algeria. Production shifted away from the Iflissen Kabyles and turned to small daggers and the curved flyssa types.

Emanuel

kronckew · 22nd October 2015, 08:11 PM

one must consider that the mannikin photo was also, like the other photo, staged, by the curators who dressed it and probably had no idea what they were doing. i still hate that hat

i really like that wide bladed one in your last thread ref by wodini at http://vikingsword.com/vb/attachment...id=95588&stc=1 - that one is a chopper!

DaveA · 22nd October 2015, 08:23 PM

As an amusing aside, I once visited a small museum of arms in the town of Torin, Italy. No one was there but the janitor, my wife and our friend who served as translator. The janitor overheard our conversation and perhaps decided I was not fully ignorant. He eagerly gave us a tour. I remarked to him that some of the exhibits were incongruous collections of weapons and other items that in no way could possibly go together. That started a tirade by the old guy who proceeded to point out all the idiocies in the exhibits. He loved that museum and the artifacts. He was very well informed — evidently more so than the curator!

- Dave A

22nd October 2015, 08:23 PM	#3
DaveA Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 417	the janitor and the museum curator story As an amusing aside, I once visited a small museum of arms in the town of Torin, Italy. No one was there but the janitor, my wife and our friend who served as translator. The janitor overheard our conversation and perhaps decided I was not fully ignorant. He eagerly gave us a tour. I remarked to him that some of the exhibits were incongruous collections of weapons and other items that in no way could possibly go together. That started a tirade by the old guy who proceeded to point out all the idiocies in the exhibits. He loved that museum and the artifacts. He was very well informed — evidently more so than the curator! - Dave A

22nd October 2015, 08:04 PM	#1
Emanuel Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,242	That's unfortunate. Perhaps a youtube search will bring up something similar. The flyssa scabbards have one or two belt loops so they were worn with a belt/sash. The oldest dated flyssa actually still has a belt with it: http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11842 . I don't think that the small flyssa one was ever worn with the long one. Camille Lacoste-Dujardin's research suggests that they only started making the small ones after about 1850 when the long sword was obsolete and the French were finalizing their conquest of Algeria. Production shifted away from the Iflissen Kabyles and turned to small daggers and the curved flyssa types. Emanuel

22nd October 2015, 08:11 PM	#2
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,239	one must consider that the mannikin photo was also, like the other photo, staged, by the curators who dressed it and probably had no idea what they were doing. i still hate that hat i really like that wide bladed one in your last thread ref by wodini at http://vikingsword.com/vb/attachment...id=95588&stc=1 - that one is a chopper!