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Dark Sister: The Valyrian steel longsword wielded by Visenya Targaryen. The last known owner was Bloodraven. [7] Dawn: The ancestral greatsword of House Dayne, who bestow the title Sword of the Morning upon the sword's bearer. Forged of metal from the heart of a fallen star, it is 'pale as milkglass' and is said to be as sharp as Valyrian steel.
The cinquedea (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ ŋ k w ɪ ˈ d i. ə /, / ˌ tʃ ɪ ŋ k w ɪ ˈ d eɪ ə /) or cinqueda is a civilian short sword (or long dagger).It was developed in northern Italy and enjoyed a period of popularity during the Italian renaissance of the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Tolkien devised several constructed languages with terms for types of weapons.. Sword: Noldorin Sindarin: magl, magol, [T 1] North Sindarin magor, [T 2] Quenya: makil, macil. [T 1] Specific types of sword were named lango (broad sword), eket, ecet (short sword), and lhang (cutlass, sword).
The term longsword has been used to refer to different kinds of sword depending on historical context: Zweihänder or two-hander, a late Renaissance sword of the 16th century Landsknechte, the longest sword of all; the long "side sword" or "rapier" [5] with a cutting edge (the Elizabethan long sword).
A longsword (also spelled as long sword or long-sword) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for primarily two-handed use (around 15 to 30 cm or 6 to 12 in), a straight double-edged blade of around 80 to 110 cm (31 to 43 in), and weighing approximately 2 to 3 kg (4 lb 7 oz to 6 lb 10 oz).
Thomas Leland (1722–1785) was an Irish Anglican priest, a historian, translator and academic and the author of the early gothic novel Longsword, Earl of Salisbury: An Historical Romance, published in 1762. [1] [2] Longsword is set in Gascony and in England, during the reign of Henry III of England. [3]
Scottish dirk, blade by Andrew Boog, Edinburgh, c. 1795, Royal Ontario Museum. A dirk is a long-bladed thrusting dagger. [1] Historically, it gained its name from the Highland dirk (Scottish Gaelic dearg) where it was a personal weapon of officers engaged in naval hand-to-hand combat during the Age of Sail [2] as well as the personal sidearm of Highlanders.
Changdao. The changdao (traditional Chinese: 長刀; simplified Chinese: 长刀; pinyin: chángdāo; lit. 'long sword') was a two-handed, single-edged Chinese sword.The term changdao has been translated as "long saber," "saber-staff," or "long-handled saber."