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A long single-edged langseax with a thick blunt spine and no crossguard laid on dark slate

Seax, Sword and Dagger: When a Knife Becomes a ...

A langseax can be longer than some swords. Where the seax stops being a knife, how a seax sword differs from a true sword, and what the sources actually call...

Seax, Sword and Dagger: When a Knife Becomes a ...

A langseax can be longer than some swords. Where the seax stops being a knife, how a seax sword differs from a true sword, and what the sources actually call...

Viking warrior in mail and plain iron helmet holding a single-bladed bearded battle axe and a round shield on a misty northern coast

What Is a Viking Battle Axe? The Norse War Axe ...

What made a Viking battle axe: the light, single-bladed Norse war axe family, from the belt-carried skeggox to the two-handed Dane axe.

What Is a Viking Battle Axe? The Norse War Axe ...

What made a Viking battle axe: the light, single-bladed Norse war axe family, from the belt-carried skeggox to the two-handed Dane axe.

Ancient iron seax with a single edge and angled spine displayed on a stand in a dark museum case

What Is a Seax? The Viking & Anglo-Saxon Knife-...

A seax is a single-edged Germanic blade — belt knife to short sword — carried from the 5th to the 11th century. What it was, how to pronounce it, the...

What Is a Seax? The Viking & Anglo-Saxon Knife-...

A seax is a single-edged Germanic blade — belt knife to short sword — carried from the 5th to the 11th century. What it was, how to pronounce it, the...

Perthro rune fact card — the lot-cup (uncertain), in the Elder Futhark

Perthro Rune Meaning: the Lot-Cup and the ᛈ Run...

Perthro (ᛈ) is the fourteenth rune of the Elder Futhark and its meaning is genuinely uncertain: it is most often reconstructed as a "lot-cup" or "dice-cup," an object used in...

Perthro Rune Meaning: the Lot-Cup and the ᛈ Run...

Perthro (ᛈ) is the fourteenth rune of the Elder Futhark and its meaning is genuinely uncertain: it is most often reconstructed as a "lot-cup" or "dice-cup," an object used in...

Tiwaz rune fact card — the god Tyr, in the Elder Futhark

Tiwaz Rune Meaning: the God Týr and the ᛏ Rune ...

Tiwaz (ᛏ) is the seventeenth rune of the Elder Futhark and it means "the god Týr": the one-handed god of war, justice and the oath. It carries the sound t...

Tiwaz Rune Meaning: the God Týr and the ᛏ Rune ...

Tiwaz (ᛏ) is the seventeenth rune of the Elder Futhark and it means "the god Týr": the one-handed god of war, justice and the oath. It carries the sound t...

Sowilo rune fact card — the sun, in the Elder Futhark

Sowilo Rune Meaning: the Sun and the ᛋ Rune Exp...

Sowilo (ᛋ) is the sixteenth rune of the Elder Futhark and it means "sun": the sun itself, source of light and warmth. It carries the sound s and appears in...

Sowilo Rune Meaning: the Sun and the ᛋ Rune Exp...

Sowilo (ᛋ) is the sixteenth rune of the Elder Futhark and it means "sun": the sun itself, source of light and warmth. It carries the sound s and appears in...