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2. List of medieval weapons - Wikipedia

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   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)

3. Knightly sword - Wikipedia

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   In the European High Middle Ages, the typical sword (sometimes academically categorized as the knightly sword, arming sword, or in full, knightly arming sword) was a straight, double-edged weapon with a single-handed, cruciform (i.e., cross-shaped) hilt and a blade length of about 70 to 80 centimetres (28 to 31 in).

4. Oakeshott typology - Wikipedia

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   Oakeshott X describes swords that were common in the late Viking age and remained in use until the 13th century. The blades of these swords are narrower and longer than the typical Viking sword, marking the transition to the knightly sword of the High Middle Ages. This type exhibits a broad, flat blade, 80 centimetres (2.6 ft) long on average.

5. Sword - Wikipedia

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   The spatha, as it developed in the Late Roman army, became the predecessor of the European sword of the Middle Ages, at first adopted as the Migration Period sword, and only in the High Middle Ages, developed into the classical arming sword with crossguard. The word sword continues the Old English, sweord. [1]

6. Elmslie typology - Wikipedia

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   It includes swords which are from the Europeans Middle Ages (approximately 11th through 16th centuries) and currently breaks them down into five main types, which each have several subtypes. Historian and bladesmith James Elmslie introduced the typology 2015, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as a complement to the Oakeshott typology which covers double edged swords ...

7. Types of swords - Wikipedia

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   Seax: shortsword, knife or dagger of varying sizes typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons, whose name derives from the weapon. Small sword; Spadroon; Stiletto; Viking sword or Carolingian sword: early medieval spatha; Zweihänder: 1500–1600 Germany

8. Viking sword - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Classification of swords - Wikipedia

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   The term two-handed sword may refer to any large sword designed to be used primarily with two hands: the European longsword, popular in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. the Scottish late medieval claymore (not to be confused with the basket-hilted claymore of the 18th century) the Bidenhänder sword favored by the Landsknechte of 16th ...