CELTIC SWORD 528 (Marto 528)
A tribal people, the Celts occupied central and Northern Europe including the British Isles in the pre-Roman period and were known as fierce warriors. The Celtic Sword (M-528) celebrates these hardy people and closely replicates a third century BC original. The human-shaped hilt is typical of the period. The blade is 420 stainless steel.

(This sword is no longer in production from Marto and has become extremly rare. Once our Noblewares stock is gone it is gone.)

The Celts of History tore through the countryside and several battalions of Roman soldiers to lay siege to the Capitol of the Roman Empire. Seven months of siege led to negotiations whereby the Celts promised to leave their siege for a tribute of one thousand pounds of gold, which the historian Pliny tells was very difficult for the entire city to muster. When the gold was being weighed, the Romans claimed the Celts were cheating with faulty weights. It was then that the Celts' leader, Brennus, threw his sword into the balance and and uttered the words vae victis "woe to the Defeated". Rome never withstood another more humiliating defeat and the Celts made an initial step of magnificent proportions into history.