Sword of the Last Armenian King: 14th century

[Rivkin]

Originally Posted by M.carter

My opinion exactly on swordforum, though manouchehr says he believes that its something different. He says that in his upcoming book, he found out that these hilts and blade styles go much older than 15th century.

My aplologies to Manoucher - while he is a great specialist, certainly of incomparably higher caliber than I am, but I find certain things he says objectionable. For example, in his recent article he claimed that "indian swords" referred in mediaval iranian sources are in fact iranian swords made from wootz. While it is possible, he did not offer any proof of such attribution, therefore I find it too optimistic.