Forget Medieval Longsword Vs Katana What about Celtic Longsword

Celts didn't make longswords, you dingus

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this thread again..

>>1447570

Yes they did.

>>1447545

Celtic swords were typically quite short, the Roman Gladius is based on them. The long swords they made were typically made of poor quality iron, and would be used to deliver a wallop on the charge but then dropped because they would bend on impact.

>>1447545
Longswords are a late medieval creation, not a celtic one.

>>1447545
they were made with similar techniques.

"By the 2nd and 3rd century AD, the Celts commonly used pattern welding for decoration in addition to structural reasons. The technique involves folding and forging alternating layers of steel into rods"

>yfw Japanese swordmaking was more then 1000 years behind European

>>1447582
>Yes they did.
They made long swords, but they didn't make longswords.

>>1447574
>Hitting a sword on a fixed sword damages it
No duh, dipshit.

>>1447570
did too

>>1447582
No, that's the Iberian sword. Not all the people of Hispania were Celts, not even most.
>>1447605
Autism incarnate
A longsword is a long sword, it doesn't have to mean medieval 2handed longsword.

>>1447634
Except the other sword was barely nicked

>>1447813
You know nothing about swords and should really stop talking.

FORGET SWORDS

JUST

GRAB

A

FUCKING

HALBERD

or Naginata

>>1447835
I know everything about swords and you should stop pretending.

>The Celts

I hate this meme, there was a lot of diversity amongst the celts

some groups of celts had swords which could only chop, and would be blunted after a single hit

>>1447830
Because the practitioner is purposely mishandling the weapon. The other sword is barely nicked due to the angle at which the damage is delivered. Swords of any kind can get fucking destroyed after a few hits if used improperly, that's why people who use them go through training first.
Anyone with an ounce of knowledge on the subject would never wield a sword like that.

>>1447886
Not to mention they're probably wildly different in quality

>making pattern welded swords.
that's just compensating the poor quality of the material. literally exactly same thing than nipponese "folding over 9000 times" shit. except that celts didn't fold it that many times.

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>>1447634
It works, if you use a good sword.

>>1447813
>A longsword is a long sword, it doesn't have to mean medieval 2handed longsword.

Longsword are single-handed weapons. Yes you can halfsword them, but they're not claymores.

>>1448126
Fucking hell that's a gorgeous peice of metal

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>>1448177
Longswords are primarily two-handed weapons.

>>1447545
>What about Celtic Longsword vs Katana? The Celts were absolute master metalworkers who were the leaders of metallurgy in their day, making pattern welded swords.
>laughingwootzsmiths.jpg

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La Tene sword

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Germanic Single edged sword

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>>1448466
never understood why these went out of use. their celtic counterparts had absolutely no real advantage over them. maybe they were just too exotic and cool to germans to miss.

>>1447545
>Muh Celts

It's time for Anglos to stop posting this meme.

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>>1449293
>Anglos
>Celtic

>>1449299
That's my point. Confused culturally Anglo people won't shut up about their fucking magical treehugging "ancestors" of the primarily the british isles. It is time for them to wake up and realise what kind of a failure the celts were. There is a reason they are gone and all that remains of them today are some meme languages none except a couple of thousand outback farmer and fishermen, in countries of several millions, uses in their daily lives.

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>>1449328
I don't think you know what the word "Anglo" means.

>>1449299
>Danes migrate and conquer Celtic Britain
>Almost everyone south of Caledonnia gets assimilated or killed off
>Their modern descendants today scream...
>WE WUZNT FILTHY KELTOI! WE ARE PURE BLOODED 30% GERMANICS
>(Followed by making fun of still somewhat Celtic peoples in Britain)

>>1449338
I know the Anglos are from what today is Denmark-Germany. My point is that people who are from the Anglo-sphere of the world, that is; culturally descendants of the Germanic peoples, won't stop romanticising the Celts.
> "Muh Celts were the best at [insert-X-here] of their time"
> "Muh Celtic Swords"
> "Muh Druids"
> "Muh fierce warriors"
> "Muh Celtic ancestry"

If You've ever been to any history-related platform were Anglos post you will constantly find this meme-tier garbage being posted.

>>1447574
That's an edit.

>>1451130
nope

>>1451340
Watch the actual episode, retard.

>>1447634
He later hits katana with longsword
21:00 - 22:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCWGwvctt4

>>1447545
>Celtic Longsword

this is why americans should be banned from /his/

A sword is nothing. You actually believe a untrained person could kill a experienced samurai just because of the sowrd? or vice versa.