Oakeshott Type X Sword w/ Viking Style Hilt Furniture

Northern Europe XIth Century

Large two-wire straight blade almost parallel, with elongated tip and slightly rounded, with broad fuller for almost the entire length, which vanishes some centimetres before the tip; short hilt iron arms straight, slightly thinned; heel shape tapered towards the pommel, this is a fungus [mushroom / teacosy], semicircular in shape, with flat sides and rounded edges.

See The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, Oakeshott, Lutterworth Press, London, 1964, pp. 25-30 and p. 94 for the pommel (type BI).

Length 93.7 cm

For more information on Oakeshott Type X blades see this extract from Ewart Oakeshott's Records of the Medieval Sword: sword-site.com/thread/118/oakeshott-type-records-medieval-sword

4000.00 € | € 5000.00 February 2015

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