From Encyclopedia
- Byrnie
- Mail shirt with elbow-length sleeves, ends in the middle of the beholder’s thighs.
- Glaive
- A broad-bladed, single-edged polearm. Mostly an 18” butcher-knife on a 6 - 7’ pole.
- Mortuary sword
- See Backsword.
- Pike
- Long spear with a small steel head, carried by infantrymen. Metal strips (cheeks) were riveted down the shaft from the point, to reinforce…
