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Contents. Viking Age arms and armour. 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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Mythological Norse weapons". The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Atgeir. Gunnar Hámundarson defends his house with an atgeir in Njáls saga. An atgeir, sometimes called a "mail-piercer" or "hewing-spear", was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. The word is related to the Old Norse geirr, meaning spear. [1][2] It is usually translated in ...
Viking halberd. The term " halberd " has been used to translate several Old Norse words relating to polearms [ 1 ] in the context of Viking Age arms and armour, and in scientific literature about the Viking Age. [ 2 ] In referring to the Viking Age weapon, the term " halberd " is not to be taken as referring to the classical Swiss halberd of ...
Skǫfnungr was a type of weapon, e.g. skǫfnungs-ǫx (an axe). The name is a later form of the word skǫflungr which meant "the skin". [ 53 ] A sword belonging to Hrólfr kraki (Hróðulf) in Hrólfs saga kraka, in which is "bound the souls of twelve berserkers", and its sharpness is unnatural. [ 35 ]
10th-century picture stonefrom the Hunnestad Monumentthat is believed to depict a gýgrriding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin. A jötunn(also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn/ˈjɔːtʊn/;[1]or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.
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 ...