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A Dane axe or long axe is a two-handed battle axe with a broad and thin blade, used by Vikings and other warriors in Europe from the 9th to the 14th century. Learn about its construction, history, depictions, and famous users from the Bayeux Tapestry, the Varangian Guard, and more.
A bardiche is a type of polearm with a long, cleaver-like blade attached to a short shaft. It was used in Europe from the 14th to 17th centuries, especially by the streltsy and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth infantry.
Polearms are close combat weapons with a long shaft and a fighting part at the end, such as spears, halberds, or war scythes. Learn about the history, classification, and examples of polearms with scythe blades, such as the dagger-axe, the ji, and the ngao.
Loveland Axe Co. (1838–1846)/ R. Loveland Axe Works (1846–1893), Milesburg & Lamar, PA – Reuben Loveland and Thomas Eddy worked for Harvey Mann from 1832–1838. [51] They came from Connecticut. About 1838 they built a shop on Bald Eagle Creek near Milesburg, and then in 1846 moved to Clinton County and purchased the Hayes Axe Works ...
Learn about the Nordic Bronze Age, a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC, when bronze tools and metalworking were introduced. Explore the culture, economy and trade of the Nordic Bronze Age people, who had close contacts with Central Europe, Greece and the Baltic Sea region.
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The poleaxe (also pollaxe, pole-axe, pole axe, poleax) is a medieval weapon that was used to breach the plate armour of men at arms. It has a wooden haft with a steel head that can be an axe, a hammer, or a spike, and a spike or a spear on the end of the haft.
The Battle Axe culture was a Chalcolithic culture that flourished in southern Scandinavia and southwest Finland from c. 2800 to 2300 BC. It was an offshoot of the Corded Ware culture and spread Indo-European languages and culture to the region.