Quote Originally Posted by Drac View Post
I am also curious what info you had on the history of the dirks. The way I've heard it told they were originally repurposed broken swords. Logical in other than our disposable everything times but not necessarily true.
They weren't originally, but they were occasionally.

There's a nice overview article on the evolution of the dirk here:

http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_spot_dirks.html