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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
A weapon can be culturally iconic without being universally used. Vikings have Danish axes. Franks have francescas. Saxons have seaxes. Japanese have katanas. Lakota have tomahawks. Turks have scimitars; Indians, tulwars. Dwarves have axes. That doesn't mean they only ever use that weapon. But they might well put it in their battlecry.
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The amount of Vikings to use Daneaxes in battle may be exagerated. Surely the number to use axes in battle are not. Handy things to have around in any case so why not take one along if some Jarl comes round asking for likely lads?
Saxons surely had saxes for more or less the same reason.
Lakota may not have had tomahawks as often as painted being horse nomads. But surely Iroquois did. A hatchet would be something very useful to have in a forest primeval. Of course they would have gotten trade tomahawks when they could get them, not flint ones, being reasonably sensible about what directly concerned their survival. And trade tomahawks would not have been much different from what settlers did, and would be the ancestor of what the modern US Army uses.