OTTOMAN PALA translation please

[ingvar]

Originally Posted by TVV

"hunting dagger" ("кортик")

well "kortik" means "marine dirk", and was worn by the officers only.



But did ou look at her book, or read it?

[TVV]

Originally Posted by ingvar

But did ou look at her book, or read it?

I can read Russian and yes, I read the part about the pala, at the beginning of the chapter on sabres, which was pretty short. The information is somewhat scarce - it seems that Astvatsaturian had a small sample of such swords to examine - 2 swords only, to be precise. The chapter makes no attempt at explaining the name "pala" or "gaddara", and it does not attempt to explore the history of the two swords. All this makes me believe that Astvatsaturian was all that familiar with this sword type herself.
Regards,
Teodor

[ingvar]

then, i suppose we've met an ancient "Saber vs Sabre" type of problem