An atgeir, sometimes called a "mail-piercer" or "hewing-spear", was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British...

has an atgeir which he had made by seething-spells; and this is what the spells say, that no weapon shall give him his death-blow save that atgeir. That...

was a skilled archer, and in close combat his weapon of choice was the atgeir, which scholars consider to have been a halberd or glaive of some sort....

translations, or the original texts. Many of these terms are shown below. The atgeir was a type of bill or halberd, from Old Norse geirr, "spear". The atgeirr...

rather than a cutting weapon, such as the hewing spear (höggspjót) and the atgeir. While clearly identifiable artistic or archaeological evidence of the form...

inlaid patterns. A polearm known as the atgeir is mentioned in several sagas of Icelanders and other literature. Atgeir is usually translated as "halberd"...

many halberds were sent to Iceland by Royal edict. The halberd, known as atgeir or arngeir in Icelandic, became a signature weapon of Icelandic farmers...

weapons. Ahlspiess, awl pike (European) Aklys (Osci tribe of Southern Italy) Atgeir (European) Boar spear (European) Brandistock, feather staff, buttafuore...

incorporated into Florø-Varg, founded in 1929. In 1945 Florø-Varg merged with Atgeir, a worker's football club founded in 1931, to form Florø SK. Florø Stadion...

range of medieval Scandinavian weapons as described in sagas, such as the atgeir. As well, all polearms developed from three early tools (the axe, the scythe...

the skill or strength of the wielder. (Norse mythology) Gunnar's Atgeir, Gunnar's atgeir would make a ringing sound or "sing" when it was taken down in...

Berserker Great Heathen Army Hersir Hird Viking Age arms and armour Halberd Atgeir Skeggöx Dane axe Gjermundbu helmet Yarm helmet Sword Ulfberht Ingelrii Ring...