The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers (1910)
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 · London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis · leaf 152
tation of the Roman sword of the legionaries.It was not only much longer but was used for strik-ing, not like the Roman short sword for the thrust,and it does not seem to have had such a serviceablehilt. The Teutonic spatha descends from the bigron broadsword carried by the Gauls of the LaTene… … PLATE V 17
