Dragaera

Swords, and a tolerable acquintance with their length

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Fri Aug 16 11:41:27 PDT 2002

Brad writes:
>fence much.)  Modern saber fencing was developed in Hungary, which
>really ought to answer any questions about what style Vlad is using.

Er...which is to say that the most popular style among modern saber
fencers is Hungarian -- the actual type of combat was mostly developed
in Italy [and the Italian style is still somewhat closer to the
dueling sabre rather than designed exclusively to win tournaments with
practice weapons].

Which doesn't, of course, answer the question of what weapon Vlad is
using, in modern rather than his own parlance. :)



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