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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 131063" data-attributes="member: 926">Ahh, RogueJK, very good, you have the same opinion as I.  Broadswords are early Norman and Viking swords.  You must be very intelligent.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   I  had brought up the Scottish broadsword in my original post, but my computer ate it before I hit submit.Broadsword is a term that came into use in the 19th century to refer to any sword that wasn't a rapier.  Because, as all the fencers back then knew, the rapier was the ultimate evolution of the sword, and all swords that came before were clumsy and useless and therefore didn't deserve seperate classification.  These were the same people that thought that men in full plate had to be hoisted onto their horses by cranes, and drew pictures to illustrate, despite no evidence of said devices or their need whatsoever, so you may want to take their opinions with a grain of salt.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>