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"The Tale of Sir Palidor and the Monster of Sunlaws Ridge"

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Sir Wolf:
sgian-dubh is the name for the small daggers, dirk is the large dagger

Sir James A:

--- Quote from: Sir John of Felsenbau on 2012-06-09, 14:13:12 ---I think I mentioned that I'm basing Sir Palidor on Paladin

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I did see this and got mixed up, thinking you meant our own Paladin (Sir William).


--- Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2012-06-10, 23:36:58 ---sgian-dubh is the name for the small daggers, dirk is the large dagger

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Yep, sgian-dubh is the small tapered dagger, specifically scottish.

Sir John of Felsenbau:
The scots had a celtic name for the dirk...similar to the first one you mentioned. It meant under the arm, or something like that.

Sir John

Sir Wolf:
as far as i know it's always been a dirk. i'll do some digging.

Sir Wolf:
"Highland dirk", Scottish Gaelic: Biodag. but that is 1700s. dirks go back as far as 1600s so not very medieval.

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