[David R]

Originally Posted by Philip

thanks for posting this article, about an exceptional sword.

Interesting that Ms Palermo gives no credit to the late Ewart Oakeshott, who covered the subject of esoteric religious inscriptions quite thoroughly in his 1960 book, The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry, p 215-19.

Happens a lot. Time passes, people forget and someone else claims the laurels.