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er-cryptid · 11 months

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Wall exhibit of various two-handed broadswords

Danish Middle Ages and Renaissance Exhibit

Danish History Museum

Copenhagen, Denmark

#history #historyblr #history museum #history museums #museum #museums #broadswords #history of weapons #weapons history #two-handed broadswords #historical swords #historical broadswords #swords #copenhagen #denmark #danish history museum #danish middle ages #middle ages

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the-official-memester · 4 days

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Why do scythes make such awful weapons?

I RESPONDED TO THIS ONCE BUT MY WHOLE POST GOT DELETED FOR SOME REASON SO I NEVER TOUCHED IT AGAIN

Here I am, like a year later, finally responding because I feel the need to rant anew about this.

Thankfully this is a very easy question to answer.

They simply were not made with that function in mind.

The function of a Scythe is cutting grasses and crops, the edge being positioned on the inside of the blade.

Let me paint a picture for you. You are wielding a farming scythe, and someone with intent to kill is coming at you. Your options? To use the tip to stab into them, or somehow manage to get the person on the inside of the scythe, essentially behind them like a hook.

Tell me, dear reader, how well that will work out for you.

Now this isn't to say that scythes have never been used as weapons, of course they have, they're fine in a pinch. But by no means are they efficient or effective, especially if you have other options available to you.

Yes, I understand they're cool and connected to the grim reaper and death and all that, but by no means does the reaper use it as a weapon. He's a reaper, he reaps souls like a farmer reaping crops. That's why he is depicted with a farming tool.

But, if you want the vague aesthetic of a Scythe with the actual ability to be used efficiently in a battle, I present to you my favorite bladed weapon, the aptly named War Scythe:

Throughout history it was essentially a modified farming scythe, but much better. A polearm infantry weapon used primarily for offensive action against infantrymen and defensively against cavalry.

I've only seen this in media once before, which is a damn shame because it's superior in both effectiveness and aesthetics if you ask me, and even worse it was in direct juncture with a farming scythe, but I'll silently cry about it to myself and shut up now lmfao.

I hope this answered your question, dear mutual. =∆

#asks #rant #scythe #war scythe #weapons history

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prokopetz · 5 months

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The whole greatsword scabbard discourse gets me because, like, we know the answer to this one. We've got primary sources talking about it. The answer to "how do you carry a weapon that's more than a yard or so long" is:

If you don't think you'll need it on short notice and you're lucky enough to have access to a wagon or other means of transport, you don't carry it at all – you stick it in the wagon.

If you do think you'll need it on short notice or you don't have a wagon, you just carry it in your hands everywhere you go and constantly complain about how dumb and awkward that is, unless you're a professional mercenary and/or independently wealthy, in which case you hire a guy to follow you around carrying it in his hands everywhere you go and he complains about how dumb and awkward that is (though probably not while you're listening).

#history #weapons #tropes

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facts-i-just-made-up · 2 months

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Who made the biggest sword ever?

"Biggest" can mean a few things:

The heaviest sword of all time is the 468lb "Le Glaive Chungeuse" of King Louis LXIX, so heavy nobody could wield it.

The longest sword ever made was the Gobai-nodachi, or "quintuple length longsword" forged by Masayoshi Johnson for a ceremony said to have resulted in the deaths of everyone present.

The thickest sword, three feet thick but only six inches long, was the Hungarian Chodesaber, which was used mostly for flattening dough.

The widest sword is currently the Grand Coronation Stub of King Charles, ruler of England as of March 2024. Shaped like a shallow isosceles triangle, its tip is almost 165 degrees.

The most expensive sword ever forged was the Diamond Sprinklesword of Muffy von Fitzwiggle-Plumnugget, which a rich Californian gave to his chihuahua for its third birthday. It could have paid to feed 30 billion people for five lifetimes.

The "biggest" sword in terms of fame and notoriety is the Sword of Damocles, which metaphorically hangs over the head of those with power as a reminder to be responsible lest they grow greedy or despotic. It has not been seen since around November of 2016.

Though not "big" per se, the sharpest sword of all time is currently being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and will be exactly one hydrogen ion thick at its point. It will be used exclusively to get the gunk out from the fingernails of the intern who is forging it. And God knows Harold needs it, just look at them on his facebook they're fucking disgusting.

#sword #swords #history #weapons #unreality

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the-history-of-fighting · 5 months

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A 3,000-year-old bronze sword that was unearthed in Germany.

Via Reddit

#ancient history #swords #ancient weapons

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zegalba · 2 months

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This rare first edition of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" was used to conceal a .32-caliber pistol (1941)

#margaret mitchell #gone with the wind #pistol #history #weapon #weirdcore #32 caliber

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jackxo · 27 days

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𝕳𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖞 𝖂𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗

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arabian-batboy · 6 months

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Crusaders ruled Palestine and most of the Levant for far longer than Zionists have ruled Palestine and just like how the Crusaders no longer control even one inch of Palestine and the rest of the Levant anymore, there will be a time where Zionists will no longer control one inch of Palestine anymore.

Its only a matter of time before their lobbying money runs dry.

#it doesn't matter how much money power weapons and influence they have #history will repeat it self and this settler colony called Israel will disappear #just like how much more powerful settler-colonies before it has also disappeared #gaza #palestine #palestinian #anti zionist #anti zionism #anti israel #anti israeli

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armthearmour · 6 months

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A spiked Dueling Gauntlet mounted with two blades,

Length: 32.9 in/83.5 cm

Width: 5.5 in/14 cm

Depth: 4.9 in/12.5 cm

Weight:3.9 lbs/1.75 kg

Italy, ca. 1540, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

#armor #armour #gauntlets #dueling gauntlet #europe #european #italy #italian #renaissance #khm #art #history #weapons

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aodhnerd · 24 days

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Did I lose power again? Yes

Am I speed running gov homework again? Also yes

#study aesthetic #study blog #study notes #studyblr #studyinspo #ap classes #ap gov #high school #study motivation #study update #books #dark academia #late night studying #power outage #history #academic weapon #academic validation #ap exams

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armouredelf · 4 months

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#weapon #weaponry #weapons #halberd #polearm #medieval #history #warfare

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prokopetz · 8 months

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It's probably the old-school Dungeons & Dragons fan in me talking, but I love historical polearms that try to be every polearm at once. Like, it's a pike and an awl and a glaive and a billhook and it has an iron-banded haft for parrying and there's an extra spike on the butt-end in case you ever need to stab the guy standing behind you. Fucking "this is the thing they killed Medieval Shinzo Abe with"-ass weapons.

#history #weapons #polearms #memes #violence mention #death mention #swearing

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illustratus · 6 months

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