Yepp, also part of the reason why students and the watch tended to get on badly in Europe. The students lived under university laws and didn’t mind showing it off by, among other things, carrying a sword.
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uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoSwords were a personal defense status symbol. They were fairly expensive, required training, and were often legally restricted deoending when and where we are talking about. This is why they continue to have sich mystique.
Most peope who needed self defense used a stick
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
While to some degree that’s true, it’s not like a sword was some impossibly expensive thing, just like how most people can afford a car nowadays most people could probably find some sort of sword in the past, or at least a particularly large dagger/knife.
As for legality, that’s what messers are for.
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Oh yeah, large dagger was definitely an option too. Bollucks dagger was a standard, for instance