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The blade length is 225.43 cm (88.75 in) and the tang is 92.41 cm (36.38 in). The ōdachi (大太刀) (large/great sword) or nodachi (野太刀, field sword)[ 4][ 5][ 6] is a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō)[ 7][ 8] used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The Chinese equivalent of this type of sword in terms of ...
Jitte. A jitte with a sword-type case koshirae. A jitte (十手, "ten hands") is a blunt melee weapon that was used by police in Edo-period Japan (1603–1868). In English-language sources, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled jutte, such as in Ikkaku-ryū juttejutsu .
Makhaira: Greek one-handed, single-edged shortsword or knife for cutting (primary) and thrusting. Pugio: Roman dagger. Rhomphaia: Greek single-edged straight or slightly curved broadsword – blade 60–80 cm (24–31 in) – for slashing (primary) and thrusting. Spatha: Celtic/Germanic/Roman one-handed double-edged longsword – blade 50–100 ...
Sword of Attila or the Sword of Mars, the sword of Attila the Hun, ruler of the Huns from 434 to 453. [ 2] Colada ("Cast [Steel]"), one of two swords owned by El Cid, the other being Tizona, which is preserved. Żuraw or Grus ("Crane"), the sword of Boleslaus III, Duke of Poland from 1107 to 1138. Possibly the same sword as Szczerbiec, which is ...
Classification of swords. Hand-and-a-half sword, probably German, c. 1400–1430 [ 1] The English language terminology used in the classification of swords is imprecise and has varied widely over time. There is no historical dictionary for the universal names, classification, or terminology of swords; a sword was simply a single-edged or double ...
The Ulfberht swords are a group of about 170 medieval swords found primarily in Northern Europe, [ 3][ 4] dated to the 9th to 11th centuries, with blades inlaid with the inscription +VLFBERH+T or +VLFBERHT+. [ 3][ 5] The word "Ulfberht" is a Frankish personal name, possibly indicating the origin of the blades.
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a sharpened cutting edge on one or both sides ...
The Minoan and Mycenaean (Middle to Late Aegean Bronze Age) swords are classified in types labeled A to H following Sandars (1961, 1963), the "Sandars typology". Types A and B ("tab-tang") are the earliest from about the 17th to 16th centuries, types C ("horned" swords) and D ("cross" swords) from the 15th century, types E and F ("T-hilt" swords) from the 13th and 12th.