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Harry Marinakis
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 Posted: Tue 08 Mar, 2016 6:05 pm Post subject: Help please, seax design |
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Hello,
I am trying to make a 10th C Norse seax, and so am working on a plan. A lot of the seax typographies end with the 9th C and I am having trouble finding good references for the 10th C. So I am finding myself shooting from the hip, and here is what I have come up with. For those of you with more knowledge than me, is this a reasonable design?
If so, please tell me why and point me in the direction of some references. Thanks.
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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Harry Marinakis
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Thanks Jeroen, I was hoping that you would chime in.
So did they not carry any smaller knives?
If they did carry smaller knives, what were they like?
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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| Harry Marinakis wrote: | Thanks Jeroen, I was hoping that you would chime in.
So did they not carry any smaller knives?
If they did carry smaller knives, what were they like? |
As far as I'm aware nothing in terms of saxes (although my information sources are limited wrt Norway). In Sweden you still see a continuation of the Baltic style sax well into the Viking age. But I haven't seen examples like that from Norway. As far as utility knives, I've not seen many examples of complete warrior grave contents. So I don't know of they were buried with knives.
Jeroen Zuiderwijk
- Bronze age living history in the Netherlands
- Barbarian metalworking
- Museum photos
- Zip-file with information about saxes
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This is a standard topic
Such as this one. It's 92cm in length, blade length 76cm, grip length 9.4cm.![petc[1].l92bl76w50g94arhusf.norway9th.uo.sva.jpg](files/petc1l92bl76w50g94arhusfnorway9thuosva_163.jpg)