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🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:confederateflag:🌼 (confederatehobo@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 23:03:18 UTC 🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:confederateflag:🌼

Despite some rabbit holing into Chechen political figures, I actually meant to post about steel. we'll bring ourselves back on track.

There's a (loose) family of blade shapes that have played the long game. Appearing, disappearing and reappearing along European history. a bit of a coelacanth if you will. If you could give it a name, it would generally best be called a "leaf shape" though it shifts and morphs over the years. Receding into straighter blades and surging into more wasp waisted ones as the fashion strikes.
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The Origins for this shape is truly ancient, as far back as you could call blades swords there were examples that could be called leaf shaped. Although not universal, they were common enough, and lent themselves readily to casting from bronze.

From the Mediterranean to the Baltics, if there was bronze being smelted, there was a leaf blade.
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The Kjindal/Qama of the Caucasus is itself ancient in it's own right. Originally a wide and fat bronze design, at some point in the roman period they slimed down some, appearing similar to Gladii.

They have remained a staple for many of the tribes that dwell in that mountain range. enduring up to today. Their sizes ranges from smaller daggers to short swords.
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Roman Gladii, The first ones were copied/ inspired from the swords used by some Iberian celts, and featured the distinctive wasped waste of leaf shaped swords. But in time the blade shapes changed.

There was a lot of inbetweens for what academics have settled on as types, however. Some mixing features between typologies.
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Many of the first iron swords were made in the stylings of bronze ones. Which means that the leaf shape was grandfathered in.

These are greek xiphoi. You can see they're practically carbon copies of some of the bronze swords
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This here is a Seme, of the African Massai tribes. Very distinctive.
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During the age of Romanticism that was the 19th century, The leaf blade was brought back to the hands of Europeans.

It's subtle, but the wasped waist is there. These are a mix of French, Union and Confederate Artillery swords.
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