Is the Khurkri Greek?

[JDBLADE]

Golok suggest I post the following here. I originally posted it in the Australian/Asian Forum.

or is it Egyptian?

I have been doing a bit of reading (yes I do things besides make and sharpen knives) and have come across an interesting theory. Given that Alexander the Great visited parts of Asia and given his soldiers probably carried the Greek "Kopis" could this have been the forerunner of the Khurkri (okay what's the correct spelling - one of my reference books refers to it as the "Kukkri"). The "Kopis" is derived from the Egyptian "Khopsh" - so does that makre the Khurkri Egyptian!

Whilst on the subject of history of knives - most of the descriptions of the Viking "Scramasax" I have read could be related directly to the "Bowie".

 

[not2sharp]

That is a definite and tempting possibility. We do not really have conclusive records, nor a continous stream of dated examples connecting these styles. But, the similarities are there, and it is likely that these cultures participated in trade. Then again, similar knives have tended to evolve independently in various cultures.

n2s

 

[Kendo]

a lot of people suggest the same that alexander the greats army influenced the locals to try and copy or improve on his troops weapons ,maybee then leading to the khukuris.
as for the bowie being derived from the seax ???? hmmm i am not so sure on that one, as the seax is so totaly different to the bowie.
i have quite a few seaxs or scramaseax the one i am going to sell is a realy nice one with a damascus blade.
the others are plain blades but all follow the same style straight back and the last 4 inch or so steeply angled down to the tip,sharp only on one edge. i have had a facination for these knives ever since i read of the famous seax found in london in the thames river aptley named [thames seax].
i am shortly going to attempt to make a seax from a large piece of spring steel ,of a leaf spring from a trailer.
no forging ect, will be all hand fileing and shaping.