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2. Viking sword - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Oakeshott typology - Wikipedia

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   Oakeshott X describes swords that were common in the late Viking age and remained in use until the 13th century. The blades of these swords are narrower and longer than the typical Viking sword, marking the transition to the knightly sword of the High Middle Ages. This type exhibits a broad, flat blade, 80 centimetres (2.6 ft) long on average.

4. Ulfberht swords - Wikipedia

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   The swords are at the transitional point between the Viking sword and the high medieval knightly sword. Most have blades of Oakeshott type X. They are also the starting point of the much more varied high medieval tradition of blade inscriptions. The reverse sides of the blades are inlaid with a geometric pattern, usually a braid pattern between ...

5. Viking Age arms and armour - Wikipedia

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   Persons of status might own ornately decorated swords with silver accents and inlays. Most Viking warriors would own a sword as one raid was usually enough to afford a good blade. Most freemen would own a sword with goðar, jarls and sometimes richer freemen owning much more ornately decorated swords. The poor farmers would use an axe or spear ...

6. Migration Period sword - Wikipedia

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   The Migration Period sword was a type of sword popular during the Migration Period and the Merovingian period of European history (c. 4th to 7th centuries AD), particularly among the Germanic peoples. It later gave rise to the Carolingian or Viking sword type of the 8th to 11th centuries AD. The blade was normally smooth or showed a very ...

7. Seax - Wikipedia

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   Merovingian seaxes. A seax (Old English pronunciation: [ˈsæɑks]; also sax, sæx, sex; invariant in plural, latinized sachsum) is a small sword, fighting knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons. The name comes from an Old English word for "knife".

8. Viking Expert Breaks Down The Northman Weapons - AOL

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   Viking Expert Breaks Down The Northman Weapons. Updated May 3, 2022 at 5:01 PM. Professor Neil Price explains the various weapons used in Robert Eggers's new viking movie, The Northman.THE ...

9. Sæbø sword - Wikipedia

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   Iron and steel, with iron inlays on blade. The Sæbø sword (also known as the Thurmuth sword) is an early 9th-century Viking sword, found in a barrow at Sæbø, Vikøyri, in Norway's Sogn region [1] in 1825. It is now held at the Bergen Museum in Bergen, Norway. The sword has an inscription on its blade, which has been identified by George ...