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Looking for a EN/FR>IT glossary on ancient weapons
Thread poster: Cristina Mazzucchelli
Cristina Mazzucchelli
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Apr 5, 2007

Hi there,

I am looking for a EN>IT or FR>IT (ideally EN/FR>IT ) on ancient weapons (daggers, swords, axes, clubs and hammers and the sorts...). But up to now I have found only monoligual resources.

Do you know if there is a bilingual resource that can help me?

Thanks in advance!

Cristina
 
Edward Vreeburg
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ancient weapons... Apr 5, 2007

...hmmm difficult subject, maybe the local army/war museum could help you out on this one..

The only thing I could find were reference to books:
"A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration of Arms and Armor: by G.C. Stone"

Hutton, Alfred. (1890) Fixed Bayonets: A Complete System of Fence for the British Magazine Rifle, Explaining the Use of Point, Edges, and Butt, both in Offence and and Defense; Comprising also a Glossary of English, French and Italian Terms Comm... See more
...hmmm difficult subject, maybe the local army/war museum could help you out on this one..

The only thing I could find were reference to books:
"A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration of Arms and Armor: by G.C. Stone"

Hutton, Alfred. (1890) Fixed Bayonets: A Complete System of Fence for the British Magazine Rifle, Explaining the Use of Point, Edges, and Butt, both in Offence and and Defense; Comprising also a Glossary of English, French and Italian Terms Common to the Art of Fencing, with a Bibliographical List of Works Affecting the Bayonet. William Clowes and Sons Ltd. 183 pp.

some sites:
http://results.about.com/swords/index.htm
http://www.vikingsword.com/index1.html
http://users.skynet.be/euro-swords/
http://www.royalarmouries.org/

some glossaries:
http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_glossary.html

Maybe these people know where to look:
http://www.swordforum.com/

IN FRENCH:
http://jeanmichel.rouand.free.fr/chateaux/glossarmes.htm
http://medieval.mrugala.net/Armes/Glossaire%20des%20armes.htm
http://www.sden.org/Glossaire-medieval.html ▲ Collapse
 
Cristina Mazzucchelli
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Thanks Edward! Apr 6, 2007

Thank you Edward!
The sites you pointed out are really interesting... I'll let you know how the translation goes...

Talk to you soon,

Cristina

[Edited at 2007-04-06 06:58]
 


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