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The detail of the horse heads, the singularity of the pommel, the filigrees, the Nordic-inspired blade.... It's one of those designs that always haunts my mind, and, despite it being a challenge, I felt it was a natural next step in my leather carving and moulding skills. It's been six months of slow progress in my free time, but I couldn't be happier with the result

"The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time. Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth Èorlingas!"
As emblematic as Narsil or Sting, and just as tied to its bearer, is Herugrim, the sword of the king of Rohan Théoden. And, for me, one of the most beautiful works of forge and blacksmithing ever designed

alojapan.com/1235693/american- American tourist entered Japan with gun #AmericanTourist #JapanNews #JapanTourism #KansaiInternationalAirport #sword #tourism HYOGO (TR) – Hyogo Prefectural Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a male American tourist after he allegedly entered Japan with a firearm in his possession. Police arrested Alan Randy Peterson, 73, for possessing a revolver at the Kobe Customs Port Terminal Inspection Room in Kobe City at around 5 p.m. on March…

The famous 'Swiss sabre' in the Wallace Collection, London (object A489). Longswords fell out of use because longsword fencing was hard to analyze with the theory of the day, but until then there were experiments with giving them complex hilts like fashionable single-handed swords. wallacelive.wallacecollection. #sword #archaeology

#sword : hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power

- French: épée

- German: das Schwert, der Degen

- Italian: spada

- Portuguese: espada

- Spanish: espada

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