Some of the ones in the 1400’s are very brutal. “Cut their arm off with your sword and when the look down at it, cut them in the head”.
But, when you get into the late 1500’s and 1600’s there seem to be more agreed upon rules. However, it is almost never stated in the books. Occasionally there is a “we don’t do that anymore”, but rarely is a why given.
And, even these 1600’s and 1700’s swords that many folks say “oh, by then they were more jewelry than weapons” are the same ones that people started fighting duels with guns instead of them as guns were less deadly. Too often with the “jewelry” both people died…
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Date: 2024-09-11 02:53 pm (UTC)“Cut their arm off with your sword and when the look down at it, cut them in the head”.
But, when you get into the late 1500’s and 1600’s there seem to be more agreed upon rules.
However, it is almost never stated in the books. Occasionally there is a “we don’t do that anymore”, but rarely is a why given.
And, even these 1600’s and 1700’s swords that many folks say “oh, by then they were more jewelry than weapons” are the same ones that people started fighting duels with guns instead of them as guns were less deadly. Too often with the “jewelry” both people died…