Dragaera

Swords, and a tolerable acquintance with their length

Fri Aug 16 12:31:51 PDT 2002

From: Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com>
>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].

Well, what I said in that sentences was a joke.  Sorry, I guess I
should stuck a smiley in there.