Alina Boyden wrote: |
Incidentally, I did my own scalar measurements and they turned out alot smaller - about 51 inches overall. Is your arm really really long? I used my 5'9" tall younger brother for scale instead of my own arm. |
I'm 6'1"and my forearm is 12 inches wich means the picture is scaled 1:30. But that means I have to guess where the elbow is on the knight. I measured the full arm as well. Then the scale is 1:27. The length of the sword is then about 57,5 inches. All measurements are taken from a print of the picture that is in the original post of this thread.
However the sword is not much shorter than the wielder when you measure it so 51 inches seems rather short to me, considering the grip looks like it could accomodate four hands.
I think it's safe to say though that the size of these weapons are quite variable as with all weapons that have an agricultural background. I remember reading that they found a head from a dane axe that measured 18 inches and the average is about 9-10 inches. The other example of a fauchard in the Mac. bible looks like it is much smaller than this one.