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Dungeon delving, into a crumbling necropolis haunted by shadows, ghouls, and wights (Pierre-Olivier Vincent, Casus Belli 22, October 1984)

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The Hawthornen sword, a two handed sword with four quillions and carved tusk hilt, Scotland, late 16th century

from The National Museum of Scotland

Source: nms.ac.uk

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もののけ姫 Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Arming Sword

Dated: circa 1530-50
Culture: Italian or Spanish
Measurements: overall length 107 cm; blade length 94.7 cm

The sword features a heavy double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section coming to a short point, formed with a ricasso and cut with a group of small marks capping a pair of narrow fullers on both sides at the forte. The iron proto-rapier hilt is formed of a pair of quillons with horizontally recurved fishtail terminals cut with a prominent ridge over their respective outer sides.

There’s a pair of faceted arms carrying at their head an inverted U-shaped bar ridged made en suite with the quillon terminals. The globular pommel has a medial ridge and flattened centres, the outer face deeply incised with a stylised shell. The later moulded wire-bound grip, and in wooden scabbard are covered in modern green velvet, fitted with iron chape, and with modern leather belt.

The hilt of the sword is a variation of the Type 16 discussed in A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820, London 1980, pp. 80-82. A sword with a very closely comparable hilt is alternatively given a Spanish late 15th century attribution by Oakeshott. For the latter, see OAKESHOTT, R. Ewart, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, New York 1965, pl. 38, Type XVIIIc. The same sword is re-appraised by the author in Records of the Medieval Sword, Woodbridge 1998, p.243