Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Studded and Splinted Armor
Heavy fabric or leather with the filling of rigid materials riveted in plates or strips.
From Encyclopedia
- Blade
- The length of steel that forms a sword.
- Cross-guard
- See Cross.
- Flail
- Jointed weapon consisting of a spiked, flanged or knobbed steel bludgeon chain-attached to a short wood or steel haft.
- Verdun
- Long thrusting sword with a diamond or square-sectioned blade used in the 16th century.
