Jess A
Archmage
Well, like Anders said the production of swords involved many different people and took a long time- High quality swords were very expensive, and something that most people do not know, is that the straight and double-edged swords were not the most used swords in Europe during medieval times: The Falchions were cheaper weapons and were far more common (something like a medieval machete) but unlike the straight swords, few original falchions have reached our days.
Thanks, I will look that up. I have yet to actually scan over all the amazing information so far available on this page - these sorts of threads are incredibly useful and the very reason why I joined this forum.