Description
Western European knight bastard sword. XIV – XV centuries.
Duralumin D16T.
Blade length: 88-90 cm.
Total length of sword: 115-116 cm.
Guard width: about 17 cm.
Blade width at guard: about 4 cm.
Blade thickness at guard: 8 mm.
Sword weight: 1100 g.
– Gothic sword – the name, in general, is conditional. By analogy of narrowed blades with the soaring spiers of the Gothic style in architecture, the distribution of which roughly coincides in time with the era of these swords.
– Their common feature is a rather rigid blade of faceted section – rhombic or hexagonal, focused on an accurate piercing stkike.
– Unlike Romanesque swords, which, as a rule, had a lenticular section with a fuller, Gothic ones, when viewed straight from the front, are either a rhombus or a hexagon.
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