Albion Migration Type D Sword

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FullerH

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I don't know if any of you have looked, but Albion has a new Migration Era sword out that is just bl**dy stunning! here is the url for it http://www.albionarmorers.com/swords/albion/migration/type-d.htm. There is also a thread on one that the author of the SPQR mystery series, John Maddox Roberts, has just received over in SwordForums, in the Ancient Arms forum here: http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9754. At the moment, there is no scabbard available, but, according to a post in that thread, there is a prototype due to be posted at the end of this month, October. If it is anywhere near as nice as the scabbards for their other swords, I will be developing a huge case of the "I Wants".

Take a look at the Albion site and a John's posting and let me know what you think, please.
 
I've got one from Arms & Armor of comparable weight, length and cost...
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Keith
 
Ferrous Wheel, I think that we are talking apples and oranges, here. The Albion sword to which I refer is a Migration Era evolved spatha with sandwich style guard and pommel and a blade that has two narrow fullers per side. What you show is a Norse or Viking style from a much later period that has a five lobed pommel and a downward curved guard, both of steel, and a blade with one wide fuller per side. It is a very handsome sword, make no mistake, but it is totally different from the Migration Era Type D, which was probably in use from around 600 CE until about 800 CE or so, while the A&A sword that you have is, as I understand the hilt design, a latish Vilking Era type, say 900s through the end in 1066. I am not trying to be picky about this, but, you see, I am a real fan of the Migration Era types as well as the Roman types of all periods of Roman history but not so much the Viking types, although I will eventually wind up with one for my later Saxon/Norse living history character. They just do not seem to attract me the way the Roman and Migration Era swords do and I cannot say why, it is a purely emotional thing.

And, I really do mean it, that is a very handsome example of the type that you have! I know a number of folks in the Longship Company who would drool all over it.
 
Ferrous Wheel I have been looking at picking this Viking sword up to add it in with the others I have...can you post up some pics of yours? I would love to see the hilt up close along with the tip and finish...a few other have posted they have this sword but I cant get any pics out of them...thanks
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lemme get back to you on that. I've got some pics of it since I blued it and put runes on it. Now it is black as night with silver runes and designs on it. Some pix at HI Cantina, but I will hafta sort thru post to repost pix.

FullerH--there is no definite line dividing Migration age and Viking age, and I think that thy overlap a bit. Until I saw yours, all migraion age blades i've seen are neraly identical to later viking age blades (blade only-fittings differ), perhaps with the migration age having blades with more parallel edges. The 2 fullers is new to me.
Fittings are often a matter of personal taste, or fashions of a period, or availability of materials.

Thanks fer sharinng,

Keith
 
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