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
![laugh :laugh:](https://forums.questionablecontent.net/Smileys/qc/laugh.gif)
). "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?
![huh :?](https://forums.questionablecontent.net/Smileys/qc/huh.gif)
(long-ish hilt without pommel, sooooh ... a
Chinese Jian with a European cruciform cross-guard? A Bastard-sword that's
shrunk in the wash?)