Migration Period sword (redirect from Ring-spatha)
single term that can be reconstructed as having referred specifically to the spatha in Common Germanic. There are a number of terms and epithets which refer...
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Longsword (redirect from Langes Schwert)
reconstruction of the German school of fencing, translating the German langes schwert. Prior to this the term "long sword" merely referred to any sword with...
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later Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard. The spatha, as it developed in the Late Roman army, became the predecessor of the European...
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Classification of swords (section Spatha)
(the Elizabethan long sword). The spatha was a double-edged longsword used by the Romans. The idea for the spatha came from the swords of ancient Celts...
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English, but it is more current in French (epée romane), German (romanisches Schwert), and especially in Slavic languages (such as Czech románský meč), identifying...
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Entstehungszeit und zum Stil des Schmucks am Schwert der Essener Äbtissinnen" in Pothmann (1995), 108-125. "Essener Schwert". Domschatz Essen (in German). Domkapitels...
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geschmiedeter, damaszierter Klinge hergestellt worden, wie z. B. das Schwert aus dem Lek bei Dorestad (prov. Utrecht / NL). Deshalb mögen den...
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