"Cypriote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... M. Dechelette. It is now well recognized that the swords of the AEgean-Mycenaean area were developed on parallel lines to those of Western Europe. We find that the long rapiers or thrusting swords are developed from the tanged Cypriote dagger, and that the true sword is a later evolution from the rapier. It is hardly to be doubted that some of the western forms of daggers and rapiers were influenced by Mycenaean types; and the discovery in Sicily of rapiers of Mycenaean type with pottery dated as recent Minoan III, establishes ...
— The Bronze Age in Ireland • George Coffey |
