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The term longsword has been used to refer to different kinds of sword depending on historical context: Zweihänder or two-hander, a late Renaissance sword of the 16th century Landsknechte, the longest sword of all; the long "side sword" or "rapier" [5] with a cutting edge (the Elizabethan long sword).
The armor is further warped into dragon-like Lost Soul Dragon Zero (心滅竜絶狼, Shimetsu Ryū Zero) during the fight, becoming capable of flight. Zero's Madō Horse with the same name as Rei's real name, Ginga, [ e ] is similar to Garo's Gōten, but with a blade attached to his head.
Roman era reenactor holding a replica late Roman spatha. The spatha was a type of straight and long sword, measuring between 0.5 and 1 metre (20 and 40 inches), with a handle length of between 18 and 20 centimetres (7 and 8 inches), in use in the territory of the Roman Empire during the 1st to 6th centuries AD.
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings features the virtuous wizard Gandalf dual wielding a magic staff and a mystic longsword. The Mummy Returns features the adventurous Egyptologist Evelyn O'Connell and the treacherous Anck-su-namun dual wielding two sais.
Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family, [a] released outside Japan as Legacy of the Wizard, is a 1987 action role-playing platform video game developed and published by Nihon Falcom for the MSX2. A port for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in Japan in July 1987 by Namco and internationally in 1989 by Broderbund . [ 3 ]
[2] [3] Non-European weapons classified as swords include single-edged weapons such as the Middle Eastern scimitar , the Chinese dao and the related Japanese katana . The Chinese jiàn 剑 is an example of a non-European double-edged sword , like the European models derived from the double-edged Iron Age sword .
The curved "scimitar" sword family includes the shamshir, kilij, talwar, pulwar, and nimcha. A shamshir shekargar (Persian: شمشیر شکارگر, romanized: shamshir-e shekârgar, lit. 'hunters' sword or hunting sword') is the same as a shamshir, except the blade is engraved and decorated, usually with hunting scenes. [1]
'Cimeter' is a formerly common variant spelling of 'scimitar', a kind of curved sword. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The spelling 'cimeter' has become standard for the knife. In The Book of Mormon , the term "cimeter" is used often to describe a weapon of war.