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Philip Dyer
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| Mark T wrote: | | Here's a nice historical image; I like how the by-knives seem to face outwards / away from each other: Martyrium der Hl. Ursula und der elftausend Jungfrauen, Flügelaltar, Bruneck, 1448, from the wonderful Imareal: |
O.O What a weird helmet and .... leather scale fauld? Is that historical or artistic liberty?
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Jeffrey Faulk
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| Philip Dyer wrote: | | Mark T wrote: | | Here's a nice historical image; I like how the by-knives seem to face outwards / away from each other: Martyrium der Hl. Ursula und der elftausend Jungfrauen, Flügelaltar, Bruneck, 1448, from the wonderful Imareal: |
O.O What a weird helmet and .... leather scale fauld? Is that historical or artistic liberty? |
The helmet is a somewhat exaggerated kettle-helm. Versions of those helms with cut-outs for the eye and nasals are known, IIRC.
The fauld/scale skirt, though, I am fairly certain is a bit of artistic liberty, a convention used to represent "ancient" armour and likely inspired by Greek and Roman artwork depicting pteruges. You can see a good bit of this in artwork depicting the medieval/Renaissance conception of the "ancient world".
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Nathan Robinson
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Jeffrey Faulk
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Nathan, the chape on that katz' is quite unique!
Also it seems like the scabbard for the secondary blade is quite large-- dagger sized, perhaps? Unless the katzbalger is smaller than it appears (my guess would be a ~24?perhaps 28 inch OAL?), that would be a quite interesting pairing. I would imagine the hilt of the dagger would have projected upward through the loops of the sword's guard...
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