| Alexi Goranov wrote: | ||
Isn't that a common name for most daggers used to dispatch dying folks (to safe them the misery)? Rondel daggers were referred to as "misericordes" on occasion, and I'd assume the same is true for bullock-daggers, ear-daggers, baselards, sword-hilted daggers, etc. I'd want to see more examples for all of the above :) Alexi |
From The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms and Weapons Edited by Leonid Tarassuk & Claude Blair
"A term for daggers found in French and English texts of the 14th and 15th centuries; it probably referred to the daggers carried in combat by knights. It subsequently became a romantic term for a dagger with a thin, pointed blade designed to penetrate mail or the joints between plates of armour. It was thought that a victim knocked to the ground or wounded pleaded for misericordia ("mercy") from the warrior closing in to finish him off; hence the modern name of this dagger."
This doesn't sound like its describing the daggers you mentioned above.
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