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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 3:37:38 GMT
I need to refresh my memory, I haven't read the book in quite a long time...
The main knife from the Dune novels that I remember clearly are the crysknives, and those would of course be impossible to replicate exactly since we don't have any sandworm teeth (unless you wanted to use wood). But I also remember there being some knife fights (with ordinary knives), fencing, etc. There were definitely a few swords in there, and after a quick search here I found out that some characters carried kindjals.
Were there any specific descriptions in there? I'm afraid that they might be pretty vague, and I'm not really interested in the movie renditions.
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Post by 14thforsaken on Jan 25, 2012 6:54:09 GMT
I haven't read Dune for a couple of years but from what I recall, they never described a kindjal in any detail. The main knives in the book that I can recall offhand are crysknives, kindjals and something they called a slip-tip. The most detailed description of a knife in the book other than a cryskinfe was of a kinfe that was used by a Sardukar disguised as a smuggler that was ambushed by a Freeman band led by Paul. It was described as having the House Corrino heraldic device on the pommel and gold wire.
Unfortunately while Frank Herbert described the political, economic, social and other macro items in great detail, other things such as the weapons were generally just given names with vague descriptions at best.
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Post by Elheru Aran on Jan 25, 2012 20:08:54 GMT
Yeah, I'm fairly sure that as far as the kindjal went Herbert was more or less just borrowing an Arabic term, along with the whole Fremen culture and everything. The word itself means, rather unhelpfully, just 'knife' and can be used to describe quite a few different Middle Eastern edged weapons, from the Circassian dagger to a Persian dagger and also the Arab jambiya...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2012 23:44:29 GMT
Ah, I didn't know that. I always assumed that that the kindjal was a type of Russian short sword. Well, I went ahead and ordered the Windlass Russian Kindjal just now. I guess that I can use my imagination if there's really nothing in the writing that tells what they look like.  It's how I pictured them anyways. |
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Jan 28, 2012 4:23:27 GMT
The Windlass Russian kindjal is a lot of blade for the money. I can't cut with it as well as I can with the equivalent Windlass qama, but it's one of my favorites anyway---and it does have, to my eye at least, the look of a sandworm's tooth. (I should point out that while it was Russian Imperial Army issue, the kindjal is more of a Caucasian/Georgian design than anything actually, you know, Russian. It's like calling a tomahawk Anglo-American.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2012 4:52:40 GMT
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to getting it. A real sword for $60 shipped sounds like win. I think that Windlass based their model this Russian issue. Like I said, I've never had a strong interest in this kind of sword until now so I just assumed it was a Russian weapon. |
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It's how I pictured them anyways.
