Annoying Braveheart question...not about kilt

[sharpdressedscot]

And how he takes it apart again to put back in that attache case

Wouldn't he cut off fingers or something? sounds painful!

[haukehaien]

Wouldn't he cut off fingers or something? sounds painful!

Well, it's the Kurgan. He'd probably enjoy it. (Although, depending on who you read, he should have a bronze or iron battle-axe rather than a sword anyway.)

[Pleater]

Ah - that explains something that puzzled me ages ago - my mother's mother loved to go to auctions and she had a house full of books, bookshelves stood in all the nooks and corners of the house.

One of the stories was about the travels and adventures of some disposessed nobleman's son and he has a huge great sword with a name like Heigel or Hegling - and he had a faithful retainer who carried it for him, in a leather case, with straps.

I tried to visualise it, as some sort of suitcase, but it could be pulled out from one end because the faithful retainer ran up to the hero riding bare back on his horse and the hero pulled out the sword and brandished it (yea, right - not slowly slid off the horse sideways under the weight) and then hero gallops off to use sword in single combat, on foot, with the villainous blackguard holding his beloved prisoner.

This case could be opened up lengthways so the sword could be placed in it on show - but must have been open at the top for it to be pulled out. The sword in its case was also carried by a pony and over the shoulders of the faithful retainer when mountain climbing.