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The term "Viking halberd" was used to describe a find in North America in the 1995 book Early Vikings of the New World, but it was later demonstrated to be a tobacco cutter. [18] There has currently been, in fact, no clearly identified Viking halberd or bill found. Spears are the only type of polearms found in Viking graves.
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.
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.
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
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 that 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 ...
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Eric appointed his son, Harald Kesja, and Bishop Asser as regents. Eric and Boedil and a large company traveled through Russia to Constantinople where he was a guest of the emperor. While there, he became ill, but took ship for Cyprus anyway. He died at Paphos, Cyprus in July 1103. The queen had him buried there.
A halberd (or Swiss voulge) is a two-handed polearm that came to prominent use during the 14th and 15th centuries but has continued in use as a ceremonial weapon to the present day. [30] First recorded as "hellembart" in 1279, the word halberd possibly comes from the German words Halm (staff) or Helm (helmet), and Barte (axe). The halberd ...