Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Praise Be To Zweihander

A tangent I wandered off on while looking for a good link to Marx Brothers for a post elsewhere.

The Marx Brothers, by the way, is also the name of a German fencing school also known as The brotherhood of Our dear lady and pure Virgin Mary and the Holy and warlike heavenly prince Saint Mark. They taught Zweihänder, rapier, lonsword, spear, quarterstaff, and dussak. I note that they seem to have inspired the Drexel Swordsman School in the RPG 7th Sea.

Link to the excellent 7th Sea review that I snagged the Eisen picture from.

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