Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Xiphos
Bronze sword with a tanged metal blade fitted into a plain wooden hilt.
From Encyclopedia
- Gisarme
- Solid and bulky, ornamental spear-like polearm.
- Spear
- Also volgue. Weapon with a long shaft, made for thrusting in the first place.
- Steel
- An alloy of wrought iron and carbon, capable of being hardened by heating and then quenching (rapid cooling) in water. This hardening process could…
- Zagbnal
- Steel pick or beaked axe from India; often engraved and inlaid with gold.
