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The Viking Age sword (also Viking sword) or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages.. The Viking Age or Carolingian-era sword developed in the 8th century from the Merovingian sword more specifically, the Frankish production of swords in the 6th to 7th century and during the 11th to 12th century in turn gave rise to the ...
Ulfberht swords were made during a period when European swords were still predominantly pattern welded ("false Damascus"), [7] [8] but with larger blooms of steel gradually becoming available, so that higher quality swords made after AD 1000 are increasingly likely to have crucible steel blades. The group of Ulfberht swords includes a wide ...
The sword weighs 1.214 kg (2.68 lb), at a total length of 91.5 cm (36.0 in). [2] Peirce (1990) makes special mention of this sword as "breath-taking", "one of the most splendid Viking swords extant". [3] The River Witham knightly sword, BM PE 1858,1116.5 was found in 1825 in the River Witham near Lincoln. [4] [5] is dated to the later 13th century.
[18] In Old English, swords were termed sweord, although other terms used for such weapons included heoru or heru, bill or bile, and mēce or mǣce. [29] Anglo-Saxon swords comprised two-edged straight, flat blades. [29]
Viking swords, the type of sword prevalent in Western Europe and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages. Pages in category "Viking swords" The following 16 ...
Type A is the "brazil-nut" shape inherited from the classical "Viking sword". Type B includes more rounded forms of A, including the "mushroom" or "tea-cosy" shape. Type C is the "cocked-hat" shape also found in Viking swords, with D, E and F derived variants of C. Type G is the disk-pommel found very frequently in medieval swords.
In contrast, inscriptions in the Latin alphabet occur frequently on Viking swords. For example, some one hundred swords with the maker's name "Ulfberht" inlaid into the blade are known from a period of about 300 years. [29] On the basis of the Beowulf quotation it may be that "Beagnoth" was the Seax's original owner's name. However, that is not ...
In 1964, Oakeshott stated that while both swords were "long believed" to date to the late 11th or early 12th century, suggested by the "Viking sword"-type pommel and the runic inscription on the Korsoygaden sword, they could not possibly predate the mid 13th century because of the style of the Cawood sword's inscriptions, and because the pommel ...