My growing dislike for Ms Birch makes the idea of an encounter with Faye very appealing, especially if the latter is in a sour mood.
Doesn't Dora keep a longsword under the counter? (Or did they move that one to Marten's & Faye's place - i.e. is that the one that Marten threatened Clinton with when he went creepy on Hanners?)
Technically, I believe the one at CoD was a broadsword, not a longsword. And I thought Clinton met Hanners at CoD, not at Marten's & Faye's place, so I would guess that was the same sword.
Hmmmh - Wiki
equates Broadsword with basket-hilted sword (like the Scottish Claymore - the short Claymore, not the one that looks like the Witcher's silver swords
). "Longsword" is an ambiguous term whose
modern use appears to refer more to the
fencing styles it supports-, specifically the grip-options the hilt permits (two-handed grip, or hand-and-a-half grip on a "Bastard Sword"), rather than only the length of the blade - in other contexts, even the short, single-handed
Roman Spatha is sometimes referred to as a 'longsword'.
"Oakeshot Type 13" is what I meant (Though it could be that I misremember the hilt length of CoD's blade and it was really a
single-handed "Knightly Sword")
What kind of long sword? Was it a basket-hilted long sword, English long sword, claymore, or zweihander?
a) Nope, b) not familiar with the term, c) which Claymore (there's two)? and d) a Zweihänder's hilt is far too long for what Dora has (not to mention the blade ...).
I remembered it to be something like a
"Oakeshot Type 13" - at longest, something with a hand-and-a-half grip hilt, i.e. neither a single-handed knightly sword, nor a Zweihänder.
(We've tons of the "Gassenhauer"-type Zweihänder lying around here. I've seen specimens that stood taller than my 1.82m when stood on the tip - 'Gassenhauer' means 'alley-hewer', and they were used against pike-formations, wielded by exceptionally tall and strong 'double-mercenaries')I use
"Langes Schwert" for types that allow two-handed fencing styles (i.e. including the "hand-and
1/
2" Bastard-swords), but I'd use 'Zweihänder' for something like Oakeshott type XV or the
'Gassenhauer'.
Edit: Found a reference (
1323) - that's clearly a ...
somethingsomething sword?
(long-ish hilt without pommel, sooooh ... a
Chinese Jian with a European cruciform cross-guard? A Bastard-sword that's
shrunk in the wash?)