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Even the late 13th century Karlamagnus Saga has a mention: "Þá lagði Oddgeir til hans ok í gegnum skjöld hans ok brynju, ok svá at á hol gékk kesjan", [12] or in English: "Then Oddgeir struck him and pierced through his shield and armor, so that the halberd pierced him through." The kesja would thus have a blade around 90 cm in length ...
Atgeir is usually translated as "halberd", akin to a glaive. Gunnar Hámundarson is described in Njáls saga as cutting and impaling foes on his atgeir. Several weapons (including the kesja and the höggspjót) appearing in the sagas are Viking halberds. No weapon matching their descriptions have been found in graves.
An atgeir was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. The word atgeirr is older than the Viking Age, and cognates can be found in Old English and other Germanic dialects (atiger, setgare, aizger), deriving from the Germanic root gar [1], and is related to the Old Norse geirr ...
A 120-year-old sailing boat of a design dating back to the Vikings is helping to preserve the future of traditional boatbuilding in Scotland. "Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles ...
Kesja is an Old Norse word that may refer to: a Viking weapon , probably a kind of polearm, used by Scandinavians during the Viking age Harald Kesja , a son of Eric I of Denmark
The Viking at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Viking ship replicas are one of the more common types of ship replica. Viking, the first Viking ship replica, was built by the Rødsverven shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1893 it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago in the United States for the World's Columbian Exposition.
The upper section was rounded to a diameter of about 150 mm (6 inches). The lower blade was about 1.8 m × 0.4 m (5.9 by 1.3 feet). The steerboard on the Gokstad ship in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway, is about 20 cm (8 inches) wide, completely flat inboard and with about a 7.6 cm (3 inches) maximum width at the center of the foil. The ...
Harald Kesja (lit. Harald the Spear [1]) (1080–1135) was the son of Eric I of Denmark and anti-king of Denmark. [2] He acted as regent 1103–1104 for his father while he was on pilgrimage to Jerusalem alongside Archbishop Asser of Lund. As regent, he was courageous, but violent, cruel and debauched.