Firangi
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | sword |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
India , warrior chest |
| Distribution: | India |
| Handle: | Wood, metal |
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The Firangi , also Farang or Phirangi , ( Indian stranger), is a sword from India .
description
The Firangi has a straight, double-edged blade. The blade usually has a hollow grind in the middle or a central ridge. From the handle , the blade runs narrowing towards the place . Rapier, broadsword or saber blades from European production were often used for the Firangi. The handle is mostly made in the same way as the handles of the Khanda or the Tegha . The handles have a hand guard and an approximately 13 cm long, curved, blunt spike on the pommel.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times. Courier Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 , page 229.
- ↑ Picture and description from Oriental Arms (English, accessed October 31, 2009).
literature
- George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times. Courier Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 (reprint).
- Nick Evangelista , WM Gaugler: The encyclopedia of the sword. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995, ISBN 978-0-313-27896-9 .
- Lord Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton: Indian and Oriental arms and armor. 1896, Dover Publications, 2002, ISBN 978-0-486-42229-9 (reprint).
- Diagram Group: The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 BC to the 21st Century. 3rd edition, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-36832-6 .
Web links
Commons : Firangi - collection of images, videos and audio files
