From Encyclopedia
- Quarterstaff
- Long (6-10 ft), massive pole for personal defense yet very dangerous in skilled hands.
- Spurs
- Y-shaped metal goads strapped to the heel, used to drive the horse on. Dating from early antiquity. Early medieval spurs were of simple prick type;…
- Spatha
- Long cavalry sword.
- Ventail
- An integral flap of mail attached to the coif in the thirteenth century; it could be drawn across the mouth to protect the lower face.
