Posts: 438 Location: Canada
Tue 01 Mar, 2005 11:30 am
Thanks Greyson and Elling,
I am also quite taken with the spear above (and the inlay). I have to admit I don't know much about "hewing spears" except they sound quite large :) . In which of
Oakeshott's works are they described?
As a point of practicality, do you see them as hewing in the same sense as a sword (slashing and cutting) or do you see them as being used as spears but yioelding the same damage as a sword because of the width of the head? I ask because the standard spear shaft would seem to be not very suited to the cut (being around an inch in diameter). The hewing spear could, of course, have a shorter and thicker shaft...
It's all new to me, so any thoughts will be appreciated.
Oh, and Elling, I was in the Bergen Kulturhistorisk Museum myself last year. Great fun, that!
Cheers,
David