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Bruno Giordan
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 Posted: Sun 29 Jul, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: Info and pics needed on this langsax |
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I have found this interesting langsax online but I have lost any reference to the article.
In particular, I need more detailed images of the handle as well as info on the materials of which it is made.
I have already smithed a nice blade for my reconstruction and I have found a way to a good foundry for bronze casting, but I need more details as well as some other general info on the blade.
Tx for any help smithed a nice blade for my reconstruction and I have found a way to a good foundry for bronze casting, but I need more details as well as some other general info on the blade.
Tx for any help
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Peter Johnsson
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| Posted: Sun 29 Jul, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: |
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This sword is so different from seaxes in general that I would almost think it is a seax-like weapon from another context.
-sharpened back edge
-semi-spherical pommel (fluted?)
-narrow oval grip with a metal (bronze?) finger guard
All unique features for any seax. Taken together thay make for a very unique weapon.
Perhaps this is a weapon that was made ina cross roads of cultural influences?
I have certainly never seen anything like it before.
Interesting!
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Merv Cannon
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| Posted: Sun 29 Jul, 2007 5:56 am Post subject: Long Knife-sword |
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Hi........It looks like either an Irish Skean or a Langobardic sword to me, but I could be wrong.
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Bruno Giordan
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| Posted: Sun 29 Jul, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| Peter Johnsson wrote: | This sword is so different from seaxes in general that I would almost think it is a seax-like weapon from another context.
-sharpened back edge
-semi-spherical pommel (fluted?)
-narrow oval grip with a metal (bronze?) finger guard
All unique features for any seax. Taken together thay make for a very unique weapon.
Perhaps this is a weapon that was made ina cross roads of cultural influences?
I have certainly never seen anything like it before.
Interesting! |
I'm pounding my chest for not having recorde the original page .. any way i got the pic during an old search for seax images.
As Merv hinted, it is likely langbarten (lombard).
I wonder what museum could be hosting it.
btw, I printed a copy of this pic and then i drew a straight line across the blade, from tip to pommel: well, the blade appears almost straight, the handle is curved downward.
A very singular kind of weapon.
With that apparently heavy pommel and handle (likely bronze) it must have had a point of balance pretty close to the cross or even in the handle itself, which is unlkely for seaxes (I'm thinking of the brescian seax you have worked on so well).
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