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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 1651275" data-attributes="member: 7533">It kind of depends on what happened to the legend after the ceremony quit...  Whether it faded into obscurity and 'displayed' means placed in a dusty closet in a backroom of the town hall, or whether the legend stays prominent on town pride and history and display is a glass case in the center of a shrine in the local church.I've seen it happen both ways.  I may be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if the falchion was mostly forgotten about until someone in the 90's noticed it and asked a local historian 'hey what's that'?Me too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Hrm...  You're right.  I must be thinking of another type of blade, though I don't know what it'd be called then, and find it difficult to describe...  Imagine the profile of the Conyers Falchion blade, but instead of a deep curve to the blade, use straight lines and sharp angles.The blade I'm thinking of looks not unlike the orc-swords from the recent Lord of the Rings movies, or the blades that many of the Scots peasants carried in the movie Braveheart.I've seen them occasionally in museums, and they were used (and shaped) very like machetes...  Used primarily for cutting brush and small trees when clearing farmland, and sometimes used as makeshift chopping swords in battle.I wish I could find an image of them...</blockquote>

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