Sword on a Stick

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

https://tonymitchell.co.uk/images/pr...shf071f7c4.jpg

Having a longer handled one of these in my garage was the entire reason I went into studying the glaive when I was younger.

Figured I basically have a glaive, might as well learn to fight with it...

[Verjigorm]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

The entire weapon was five and a half feet long, not the blade. The blade of a falx was the same length as a pruning hook.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...siMetope34.jpg



They called pruning hooks or bill hooks. They were, and still are, used all over the world.

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http://myarmoury.com/talk/download.php?id=1924

Doesn't look like ANY of those. Kirdby D Wise did a replica of one of these, and it looks like a sword, albeit an unusual one, and not like a pruning hook. I don't know if that's the Rhomphaia of history or some different weapon that is unnamed(again, Gallo-Thracian greatsword?), but it's not a pruning hook or a bill hook.

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

http://myarmoury.com/talk/download.php?id=1924

Got a different link? That appears to be only visible to members.

[Verjigorm]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Got a different link? That appears to be only visible to members.

http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.1514.html

There's the MyArmoury post itself, with the relevant photograph as well as others.

[DanHoward]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

http://myarmoury.com/talk/download.php?id=1924

Doesn't look like ANY of those. Kirdby D Wise did a replica of one of these, and it looks like a sword, albeit an unusual one, and not like a pruning hook. I don't know if that's the Rhomphaia of history or some different weapon that is unnamed(again, Gallo-Thracian greatsword?), but it's not a pruning hook or a bill hook.

You can't pick one outlier and pretend that it is representative of all these weapons. A more typical example is in the Cluj National History Museum. The total length including the tang is around four feet and the blade is less than three feet. With a handle it would be between five and six feet long.

http://www.enciclopedia-dacica.ro/im.../curved_05.jpg

[Verjigorm]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

You can't pick one outlier and pretend that it is representative of all these weapons. A more typical example is in the Cluj National History Museum. The total length including the tang is around four feet and the blade is less than three feet. With a handle it would be between five and six feet long.

http://www.enciclopedia-dacica.ro/im.../curved_05.jpg

I'm not saying it's representative of all Falx or Rhomphaia, or even that it is one. I'm saying that there were definitely long metal weapons that looked more like swords than pruning hooks or bills. Whether these are a version of Falx or Rhomphaia, I don't know, but I do know there are multiple archealogical finds of these "gallo-thracian greatswords", and at least a few people have applied the label "rhomphaia" to them.

[DanHoward]

I was talking about the falx, not the rhomphaia. They are completely different things. Only the latter was designed for battle. The former should be classed as an improvised weapon. The falx has been overhyped almost as badly as the katana.