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Originally Posted by Peter7307
I am no expert on this but I thought knights held the lance under the right arm and across the body thus facing their opponent who was on their left.
The idea being if the knight struck another with the lance it would not push back directly but at an angle thus lessening the force attempting to shift them out of the saddle.
Anyone know for certain?
Peter
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It goes back much further than that, to Roman times and the Latin terms of dexter and sinister.
We get our word for dexterity and that of being right handed from 'dexter', and the word 'sinister' describes being anything other than that.