• ChowJeeBai@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Glad the title says ‘non-exhaustive’. The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia have many examples in Southeast Asia. I learned this from forged in fire.

    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      For some reason I can’t see the image, so no idea what swords it has listed, but here goes…

      In general the fighting style with curved swords would be very cut centric. With straight swords it depends but your average straight sword (arming sword, longsword etc) would be cut&thrust as it would be good at both. Now the narrower (and usually also longer) the blade, the more thrust centric it gets - think rapier, which is mostly thrust centric (though could be able to cut in some cases I think - but that’s in a same way a curved sword could thrust - possible, but not designed for that). Then you also have swords with thicker blades that were pretty much cut only like falchion.

      Now keep in mind there wereno design standards so while the above applies for the average sword in the category, these categories and names were usually applied by us after the fact to categorize already existing examples.

      Now while the usage of a particular sword would have more or less the same basics, there might be differences. Some would be dictated by how the sword was made, but there were different schools (literally and figuratively) of combat styles. For example the two most prominent longsword styles would be German school (Lichtenauer) and Italian (Fiore) - at least those arenI think the most prominent today in the HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) circles. Of course these two fencing masters were not the only one, as I’m sure the German and Italian schools were notnthe only one (and as with sword classification the lines were most likely blurry) but we have many surviving sources on these.

      Not exactly a guide (much less a cool one), but hopefuly enough to make a general idea :)

      • Taniwha420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        There’s a big difference between sabre and longsword cutting techniques though, no? From what I’ve seen sabre fights just look like crazy slashing contests.

  • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Oh hey, I just read Gulliver’s Travels and he had a hanger. I knew it was a sword of some sort, but this is cool to see.

  • pelya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    The oldest is Khazar saber for some reason. As if Egyptians, Greeks and Romans did not use any swords.