Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Full moon
Parrying weapon consisting of a steel ring attached to a handle with two curved blades fitted to either end; outer edges of the ring and the blades are sharpened.
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- Bevor
- Also called bavier or buffe. A chin-shaped defense for the lower face, incorporating a gorget plate. The buffe was an…
- Black Bill
- See Bill.
- Compound-Hilt & Complex-Guard
- Term for the many forms of hilts in Renaissance and on some late-Medieval swords. Ususally consist of finger-rings,…
- Xiphos
- Bronze sword with a tanged metal blade fitted into a plain wooden hilt.
