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Michael Curl
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 Posted: Mon 05 Jan, 2009 10:11 am Post subject: Anyone have a online resource for petersons axe typology. |
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I want to learn mokre about axes.
E Pluribus Unum
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D. Austin
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Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: 20 Sep 2007
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Craig Peters
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Is there anything covering axes and spears in the "High Middle Ages" (say 1050-1250)?
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Mihai Ionita
Location: Romania Joined: 17 Dec 2008
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Covering axes as in sources on how to use them in combat? Or typologies like those two previously linked to?
The only source for axe-work that I know of is "Jeu de la Hache" and it is of a considerably later period (Fifteenth Century) and deals with pollaxes, not axes proper.
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Elling Polden
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The reason Pettersen deals with axes and spears at all (his book was about swords) is that viking age graves usually contained more than one weapon, and the combination of spear/axe/sword/noicemaker types serves to date the grave. (I didn't translate the noicemaker section, though... :P)
There are quite likely newer typologies for both viking and later weapons, but I don't know about them... I'll try to ask my archeologist friends...
"this [fight] looks curious, almost like a game. See, they are looking around them before they fall, to find a dry spot to fall on, or they are falling on their shields. Can you see blood on their cloths and weapons? No. This must be trickery."
-Reidar Sendeman, from King Sverre's Saga, 1201
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Fabrice Cognot
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Craig Peters
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| Mihai Ionita wrote: | Covering axes as in sources on how to use them in combat? Or typologies like those two previously linked to?
The only source for axe-work that I know of is "Jeu de la Hache" and it is of a considerably later period (Fifteenth Century) and deals with pollaxes, not axes proper. |
Typologies. I already know of La Jeu de la Hache, and I'm aware that there's also some stuff on poleaxe-type weapons in Mair, and I think there might be a couple things in Sutor too.
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This is a standard topic