The Highlander Sword: Collectible Movie and Television Weaponry

There are many blades that can be called a highlander sword. The most well known of these swords will be the blades from the movies and television series Highlander. However, there are also traditional Scottish weapons that are also dubbed as highlander swords.

What is the best known Highlander Sword?

The most well known Highlander sword from the movies is the MacLeod clan blade. This forty-three inch broadsword is a blade that found itself being wielded by Conner MacLeod, played by Christopher Lambert, throughout the first part of the movie that chronicled his life. In latter portions of the movie Conner uses the blade of his deceased mentor Ramirez, played by Sean Connery, to decapitate the Kurgan, played by Clancy Brown.

In most of the movies and the television series the swords wielded are expertly crafted and gloriously appealing katanas of legendary quality. Despite the incredible quality of craftsmanship and commonly seen usage of the katana sword by the main characters of both the movies and the series it is the highlander's broadsword and the historical claymore most people will automatically think of when the words highlander and sword are mentioned in the same sentence.

These traditional weapons of the Scottish highlands are the stuff of mighty myth and legend and even though the main characters in the fictional shows eventually wielded Japanese weapons it is the first sword, the Macleod clan blade, that many secretly long to raise above their head and proclaim in a loud masculine shout, "There can be only one!"

This proclamation would then no doubt be followed by someone turning on the television series' sound track so that the band Queen can play the Highlander: The Series theme song "Prince's of the Universe" in the background behind them.

The katanas wielded by the main characters are glorious in their own right though. The one Connor wielded to defeat The Kurgan in the gathering was supposedly crafted in Japan in the year 593 b.c. by Masamune one of the greatest sword-smiths to ever have lived. The one Duncan wields is around forty-two inches in length and has an ivory handle carved into an elaborate but functional dragon handle.

The best replicas of these weapons are fully functional and wickedly sharp. An owner of this particular Highlander sword, whichever of the two is owned, can readily believe that this weapon can cut off the head of an immortal swordsman.

The highlander sword whether movie replica or traditional Scottish claymore is an exceptionally crafted blade that can find a worthy place in any collector's glass case, role players arsenal, or in some cases actual sword practice. In the movies there can be only one. In real life anyone who wishes too can wield the blades of the immortals and feel the power of the quickening.

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