The Mystery of El Cid's Swords Tizona and Colada

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The Mystery of El Cid's Swords Tizona and Colada

14th February 2018, 03:20 PM

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Roland_M

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Reventlov

Sadly, on this topic Wikipedia is not reliable... in any language!

Sure, I'm with you.

here I found a more reliable and pretty interesting source of the background of different sword-names in English (including Tizona):
https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/am...tr/i2_1_1.html

Tizona means "Burning stick" or "Firebrand".

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