Armour & Weapons
Forfatter: Charles Ffoulkes
År: 1909
Forlag: At The Clarendon Press
Sted: Oxford
Sider: 112
UDK: 623 Ffou
With A Preface By Viscount Dillon, V.P.S.A. Curator Of The Tower Armouries
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CHAPTER VII
WEAPONS
The Sword. At the time of the Conquest the sword was
straight, broad in blade, two-edged and pointed. The Quillons
were straight and the grip ended in a Pommel which, as far as we
Fig. 46. Sword-hilts.
can judge from illustrated records, was square, round, lozenge-
shaped or trefoiled (Fig. 46). There is not much change in the
general lines of the sword during the twelfth century except in the
form of the pommel.
In the thirteenth century the point, instead of starting abruptly