Talk:Tizona

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Fixed most of the misspellings, such as 'daugter'. Added the part I was actually looking for when I searched this, relating to Freelancer. I have no idea what 'Damasc steel' is. I can only assume this is another misspelling of some region of Spain.

Damascus steel.[edit]

Put the Damascus steel line back in, linked to the appropiate article.

Bad link[edit]

The link to the Spanish museum goes nowhere.

I've altered the link to point to the museum's front page, since they're undergoing renovations and apparently changing the website to match. The Dark 15:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fighting Muslims[edit]

New enough here that I don't want to just change this without mentioning it, but according to all I've read, including Fletcher's "Quest for El Cid," the Cid fought Christians as well as Muslims, as did most during that time.

Assuming that battle lines were always drawn along religious lines is misleading and should certainly be avoided - alliances often crossed the religion lines, typically more often than not(!). Charles Martel (the Hammer) who defeated the Muslim advance into Spain, did so with Muslim allies (see "Islamic Imperialism: A History"); Saladin allied himself with the Christian kingdoms when it suited him and was more focused on defeating his Muslim rivals for the leadership of the Muslim world than kicking out the Levantine kingdoms. The Turks were allied with various of the Balkan states at different times (see The Second Stage of Conquest of the Balkans.--210.184.0.122 (talk) 05:54, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

pic of sword[edit]

the pic on this page might be a sword of El Cid, but it's not Tizona. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.169.218.211 (talk) 19:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Tizona es falsa"[edit]

Apparently, a sword claimed to be Tizona was debunked and thus the Spanish military refused to buy that sword because of that. Why doesn't our article say anything about the debunked sword? 204.52.215.107 (talk) 22:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would need a reliable source to confirm it. - Caribbean~H.Q. 22:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not demonstrated that it's false (only that the inscription is later than the XI century). The historiographic tradition can follow the track of the sword until nowdays. I will translate it from the spanish article. Infinauta --14 Oct 2008