Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Falling buffe
Hinged, face part of a helmet. Can be secured by a leather strap and has flexible lames so it can be lowered for better ventilating and visibility.
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- Edge
- The sharp, cutting part of a blade. Swords are single or double-edged.
- Gardebras
- Armor for the whole arm. Consists of the couter, vambrace and rerebrace.
- Sabaton
- Articulated, steel armor protecting the foot. Sometimes called solleret by the French.
- Herebra
- Phoenician sword with a double-edged, leaf-shaped blade OR straight-bladed Bornean sword with a guardless wooden hilt.
