Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Morning star
Also called morgenstern. A form of spiked club , popular in the early sixteenth century.
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- Flamberge
- Special type of rapier with a waved blade. Used mostly by officers and uper class. Effective in parrying when it slows down the…
- Falling buffe
- Hinged, face part of a helmet. Can be secured by a leather strap and has flexible lames so it can be lowered for better…
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Zagbnal
- Steel pick or beaked axe from India; often engraved and inlaid with gold.
