11-22-2006, 01:36 AM
Quote:I thought Connolly or someone dismissed the idea of the coupling through experimentation. The weight of the pike head and shaft would pull itself loose...
Johnny
I seem to recall such a thing as well, but I can't find any specific source for it. Waldemar Heckel in his recent Osprey Warrior publication on the Macedonian soldier perpetuated the two-part sarissa theory. Apparently he did some field testing of his own with it, but I haven't been able to find any sources for that, either. He came to speak at my university about two months ago, but I unfortunately was not able to speak with him to ask him about it.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
