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Indian scabbards

3rd April 2018, 06:21 PM

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fernando

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

So the export was not only blades or ingots - but whole swords as well.

For some reason, in Hadhramaut and Yemen, the Arabs used to refer to a good sword as muhannad, meaning an Indian Sword.
(R. Elgood "The Arms and Armour of Arabia in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries")

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