"If you want to end him rightly, hold your spear and sword together on your arm, unscrew the pommel of your sword and throw it at him vigorously." Thus says an old fighting manuscript from the 1400s. When Skallagrim, a YouTuber on medieval sword art, brought this up, a new meme was born. This mod will make this centuries old joke a reality. Adding the possibility to unscrew your pommel in the heat of battle, and throw it at the face of your trembling rival lord. In addition, we will add most of Skallagrim's sword collection to the game and his beard and hairdo. Giving you all the tools in the face of your nemesis to End him Rightly!
Dane Axe
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One of the most brutal and feared weapons of the viking age!
on the dane axe or dansih axe.. the longer axe part was on the top because it was sometimes used as a spear and because it was easier to pierce opponents with mail... so it was way more useful to have the longer part on the top then facing down...
Sounds logical, but there are multiple designs and findings of the axes and they were used in major parts of Europe. Lots of depictions have a longer part on the lower side.
Besides that, the piercing was meant for flesh not mail. If you have seen testing videos, proper mail is very hard to pierce, even with dedicated piercing weapons. An axe as light as this one with a blade not dedicated to piercing and unaligned with the line of the handle will be unable to effectively penetrate any proper mail from the time.
No matter, this mod is about reproducing the weapons from Skallagrim's collection, and this is the way his Dane axe is shaped.
Yeah, but then its not a Dane axe.. Dane axes were type L .. This one isn't
Can you please get me some references for your statement? I'm all about accuracy and stuff. But I don't go about opinions. All sources I have found on Dane axes state that Dane Axes include both M and L blades, this one being type M.
If you can prove to me with real historical sources that I'm in the wrong, i'll gladly retract my statement and not call this a Dane axe anymore.
Archaeological finding that this reconstruction is based upon: Britishmuseum.org
En.wikipedia.org
Evidence for the opposite of your statments: Moddb.com