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Knightly dagger; Late Middle Ages. Anelace (14th century long English dagger, worn as an accoutrement) Baselard (14th century long cutting dagger) Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape) Poignard; Renaissance. Cinquedea (broad short sword) Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the ...
A rondel dagger / ˈ r ɒ n d əl / or roundel dagger is a type of stiff-bladed dagger used in Europe in the late Middle Ages (from the 14th century onwards), used by a variety of people from merchants to knights. It was worn at the waist and could be used as a utility tool, or worn into battle or in a jousting tournament as a side arm.
The Middle English dagger is used from the 1380s. During this time, the dagger was often employed in the role of a secondary defense weapon in close combat. The knightly dagger evolved into the larger baselard knife in the 14th century. During the 14th century, it became fairly common for knights to fight on foot to strengthen the infantry ...
Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight. Arming sword; Dagger; Estoc; Falchion; Katana; Knife; Longsword; Messer; Rapier; Sabre or saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
Carnwennan (Little White-Hilt), the dagger of King Arthur. It is sometimes attributed with the power to shroud its user in shadow, and was used by Arthur to slice the Very Black Witch in half. (Arthurian legend) Dagger of Rostam, a glittering dagger that Rostam used to behead the white daeva Div-e Sepid. (Persian mythology)
An illustration of a misericorde from a 1908 textbook. A misericorde (/ ˌ m ɪ z ər ɪ ˈ k ɔːr d / or /-z ɛr ɪ-/; from French miséricorde, "mercy"; itself derived from the Latin misericordia, "act of mercy") was a long and narrow knife used during the High Middle Ages to deliver mercy killings to mortally wounded knights, as it was designed to be thin enough to strike through the gaps ...
We first saw this dagger way back in Season 1 of Game of Thrones, when it was wielded by an assassin who made an attempt on Bran Stark's life while he lay in a coma after Jaime Lannister pushed ...
Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.