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First sentence (the link, in fact): it’s a sculpture in Brunswick, not Berlin.
I presume Autocorrect is to blame.
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(previously on bb)
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Ah, so this whole thing could be made up.
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Por quois? This is not a reference I am familiar with.
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Yup, what @L0ki said.
A Katzbalger is a very distinctive kind of early modern sword generally associated with the Landsknecht mercenaries of the 16th and 17th centuries.
It’s a bit of a peculiar word in German, so I didn’t expect it to be associated with anything else.
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Nope. I too have a Katzbalger sword, though it’s a stage fighting model. Better balanced than the ones you hang on a wall, but has no edge whatsoever. Leftover from my days in the Baieruther Katzbalgerey, a 16th century mercenary reenactment troupe.
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