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Guess what? We've got another AK Trivia Question for our AK'ers! A winner will be chosen at random from the correct answers posted below. The winner will receive a personal shoutout from Cee & Just Jul on an upcoming AK Blade episode, which will be released on YouTube, Rumble and here on our blog. Good Luck!
The Question is: What is a "sgain-dubh" and where would one traditionally carry it on their person?
Good luck to all and we hope you have a knife day!
The sgian-dugb (skeean doo), was a single or double edged black dagger worn in the stocking on the dominant hand side of a Scottish Highlander, usually on the right. Dugb translates “black”, which eludes to both it being hidden or secret, and to the color of the grip, usually of antler or ebony.
In earlier use it sometimes had a clipped point, not unlike a small bowie.
Originally upper class Highlanders would not have displayed the sgian-dubh, (it was more a working-man’s blade). But after Queen Victoria made Highland dress “fashionable” in the late 1800’s, the sgian-dubh appeared in portraits of noble Highlanders and English alike.
An effective hunter’s knife in practical use, or weapon of last resort, it would sometimes be fitted to match the Highlander’s dirk.
Ref. gaelicthemes.com
It’s a Scottish dagger, carried inside your strong arm stocking, with only the handle exposed.
A Scottish/Highlands fixed blade knife carried in the right leg stocking
A traditonal Scottish blade carried in the sock, usually on the dominant hand side.
The sgain-dubh [skee-do] is a small, Scottish/Highlands, fixed-blade knife typically worn in the wasteland of a kilt or stockings.