Swords?

Neutronale

Hi yis

just saw this and I'm wondering if its common or 'tever...



The bottom most example is a single-edged sword from a small cemetery at College Green, discovered 1817-18.

'Single-edged', thats interesting says you!

I'm thinking the single edge gives extra strength in order to hack thru armour...could be!

Any thoughts?

slowburner

This looks interesting but I'm not entirely sure what the question is.
Where's the image from?

cfuserkildare

Hi,

2nd on Slowburners question regarding source,

Actually worked with a bloke that found a sword in the Pheonix Park back when he was a child (30-35 years ago)
Apparently it was Viking!

Regarding your question about bottom single edged sword,
Anti Armour swords tended to be very long eg Claymore because the standard Broadsword (36-40") tip wouldn't reach a high enough velocity to damage heavy armour where-as the Claymore (45-65") would easily go fast enough due to the length of arc to be able to slice through armour, if that makes sense.

Neutronale

slowburner and cfuserkildare, thanks for the replies.

These were finds from viking Dublin from the 19th century. Unfortunately I didnt keep the link but will try and find it.

I was focusing on the bottom most sword which is interesting in that its single-edged.

From memory there were short cleaver-like swords from the 15th century which were designed to cut through armour but I cant remember what they're called.

slowburner

Neutronale wrote: »

slowburner and cfuserkildare, thanks for the replies.

These were finds from viking Dublin from the 19th century. Unfortunately I didnt keep the link but will try and find it.

I was focusing on the bottom most sword which is interesting in that its single-edged.

From memory there were short cleaver-like swords from the 15th century which were designed to cut through armour but I cant remember what they're called.

So there were two groups then, Viking and late Medieval?

Neutronale

slowburner wrote: »

So there were two groups then, Viking and late Medieval?

The picture is of viking weapons. From memory there existed short cleaver type weapons from the 15th century that were designed to cut through armour.

I am surmising that the single-bladed sword from the viking finds was their type of armour cutting weapon.

Neutronale

These examples are referred to as falchions, but I think there is another word for them...