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  2. Gaelic warfare - Wikipedia

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    These adaptations and developments brought regular use of other weapons such as lances, poleaxes like the dane axe, lochaber axe, sparth axe and swords like the arming sword and two-handed swords similar to the Scottish Claymore. Many of the medieval swords found in Ireland today are unlikely to be of native manufacture given many of the ...

  3. Claymore - Wikipedia

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    A claymore ( / ˈkleɪmɔːr /; from Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh - mòr, "great sword") [ 1] is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword. The former is characterised as having a cross hilt of forward-sloping quillons with quatrefoil terminations and was in use from the ...

  4. List of historical swords - Wikipedia

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    The Irish Sword of State (1660), a ceremonial sword of the Kingdom of Ireland. An earlier Irish sword of state was lost after 1581. [11] Displayed at the Jewel House, Tower of London. [12] The Sword of State (1678), part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom displayed at the Jewel House, Tower of London. [13]

  5. Buckler - Wikipedia

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    Buckler front and back Sword and buckler combat, plate from the Tacuinum Sanitatis illustrated in Lombardy, ca. 1390. Irish round shield. A buckler (French bouclier 'shield', from Old French bocle, boucle 'boss') is a small shield, up to 45 cm (up to 18 in) in diameter, gripped in the fist with a central handle behind the boss.

  6. Knightly sword - Wikipedia

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    One-handed cruciform, with pommel. In the European High Middle Ages, the typical sword (sometimes academically categorized as the knightly sword, arming sword, or in full, knightly arming sword) was a straight, double-edged weapon with a single-handed, cruciform (i.e., cross-shaped) hilt and a blade length of about 70 to 80 centimetres (28 to ...

  7. Dirk - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Iron Age sword - Wikipedia

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    Iron Age sword. Swords made of iron (as opposed to bronze) appear from the Early Iron Age ( c. 12th century BC), [citation needed] but do not become widespread before the 8th century BC. Early Iron Age swords were significantly different from later steel swords. They were work-hardened, rather than quench-hardened, which made them about the ...

  9. Claíomh Solais - Wikipedia

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    The Sword of Light or Claidheamh Soluis ( Old Irish; modern Irish: Claíomh Solais [ˌklˠiːw ˈsˠɔlˠəʃ]) is a trope object that appears in a number of Irish and Scottish Gaelic folktales. The "Quest for sword of light" formula is catalogued as motif H1337. The sword appears commonly as a quest object in the Irish folktale of a hero ...

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