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Page of the Codex Wallerstein showing a half-sword thrust against a Mordhau move (Plate 214). In the German school of swordsmanship, Mordhau, alternatively Mordstreich or Mordschlag (in German literally "murder-stroke" or "murder-strike" or "murder-blow"), is a half-sword technique of holding the sword inverted, with both hands gripping the blade, and hitting the opponent with the pommel or ...
Example of an illustration of half-sword, c. 1418: Islan the monk executes a half-sword thrust against Volker the minstrel (CPG 359, fol. 46v).Half-sword, in 14th- to 16th-century fencing with longswords, refers to the technique of gripping the central part of the sword blade with the left hand in order to execute more forceful thrusts against armoured and unarmoured opponents.
The term "single-handed sword" or "one-handed sword" was coined to distinguish from "two-handed" or "hand-and-a-half" swords. "Single-handed sword" is used by Sir Walter Scott. [11] It is also used as a possible gloss of the obscure term tonsword by Nares (1822); [12] "one-handed sword" is somewhat later, recorded from c. 1850.
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Oakeshott types. The Oakeshott typology is a way to define and catalogue the medieval sword based on physical form. It categorises the swords of the European Middle Ages (roughly 11th to 16th centuries [1]) into 13 main types, labelled X through XXII.
While the majority of surviving sources concerning the use of the two-handed longsword detail the German school of swordsmanship and the Italian school of swordsmanship, there was also a smaller English school [when?] with its own techniques (for an example: Half-sword). [1]
Sword of Darkness: The sword that the then-evil Green Ranger, Tommy, used. It allowed Rita to maintain her evil spell on Tommy and gave Tommy extraordinary power. Jason destroyed it, and Tommy was able to break free and join the Power Rangers. Sword of Power: A powerful sword that could give extra power to a Ranger that holds it.
At the conclusion of its seventh and penultimate rate-setting policy meeting of 2024 on November 7, 2024, the Federal Reserve announced it was lowering the federal funds target interest rate by 25 ...