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salvianusI have my sword!
Not sealed in stone and not re-forged from pieces, but certainly re-made. I was able to give the blade John found for me to Stephen, who re-profiled the point and made a great Type I style wooden handle and scabbard, making it into a superb sword.
It's nice and light for me and just moves in the hand :-)
It has a lovely cherrywood scabbard and guards with a lovely finish. The gentle ash ridges of the grip fit the hand easily and is just rough enough to give firm traction. We kept it plain wood to keep it nicely non-specific: the type is Germanic & goes from our usual dateline in Late Roman Britain and well into the C7th in the Anglo-Saxon period - a good candidate for the kind of sword carried by the humbler warriors of Ambrosius Aurelianus 'the last Roman', of Vortigern 'the high king' and of Cynric of Wessex himself.
The end result isn't too dissimilar from the 'Sword of Childeric', but chunkier & without the rich decoration.
I've measured it:
lower guard 4 1/2" X 1 10/16" X 3/4" Depth
grip 4 1/16" X 1" - 1 7/8" Diameter
upper guard 3 1/8" X 1 15/16" X 5/8" Depth
The tang is hammered completely into a rivet, with a roughly square iron washer. The dimensions reflect the length of the tang and fits my fairly small hand neatly.
http://pics.livejournal.com/salvianus/pic/000degg3/g43
http://pics.livejournal.com/salvianus/pic/000ddcfy/g43
Not sealed in stone and not re-forged from pieces, but certainly re-made. I was able to give the blade John found for me to Stephen, who re-profiled the point and made a great Type I style wooden handle and scabbard, making it into a superb sword.
It's nice and light for me and just moves in the hand :-)
It has a lovely cherrywood scabbard and guards with a lovely finish. The gentle ash ridges of the grip fit the hand easily and is just rough enough to give firm traction. We kept it plain wood to keep it nicely non-specific: the type is Germanic & goes from our usual dateline in Late Roman Britain and well into the C7th in the Anglo-Saxon period - a good candidate for the kind of sword carried by the humbler warriors of Ambrosius Aurelianus 'the last Roman', of Vortigern 'the high king' and of Cynric of Wessex himself.
The end result isn't too dissimilar from the 'Sword of Childeric', but chunkier & without the rich decoration.
I've measured it:
lower guard 4 1/2" X 1 10/16" X 3/4" Depth
grip 4 1/16" X 1" - 1 7/8" Diameter
upper guard 3 1/8" X 1 15/16" X 5/8" Depth
The tang is hammered completely into a rivet, with a roughly square iron washer. The dimensions reflect the length of the tang and fits my fairly small hand neatly.
http://pics.livejournal.com/salvianus/pic/000degg3/g43
http://pics.livejournal.com/salvianus/pic/000ddcfy/g43
