īattle axes are particularly associated in Western popular imagination with the Vikings. Some later specimens had all-metal handles. The hardwood handles of military axes came to be reinforced with metal bands called langets, so that an enemy warrior could not cut the shaft. The crescent-shaped heads of European battle axes of the Roman and post-Roman periods were usually made of wrought iron with a carbon steel edge or, as time elapsed across the many centuries of the medieval era, steel. Moreover, a lighter weapon is much quicker to bring to bear in combat and manipulate for repeated strikes against an adversary. This facilitates deep, devastating wounds. īattle axes generally weigh far less than modern splitting axes, especially mauls, because they were designed to cut legs and arms rather than wood consequently, slightly narrow slicing blades are the norm.
Axes were often cheaper than swords and considerably more available. Axes could be modified into deadly projectiles as well (see the francisca for an example). Besides axes designed for combat, there were many battle axes that doubled as tools. Axes, by virtue of their ubiquity, are no exception. I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him.Through the course of human history, commonplace objects have been pressed into service as weapons. My master has heard that there is jousting here, and prospect of honorable advancement, so he has come to ask that some English cavalier will vouchsafe for the love of his lady to run a course with sharpened lances with him, or to meet him with sword, mace, battle-axe, or dagger. George, and sword or battle-axe swinging from their belts, completed this equipment, while in some cases the murderous maule or five-foot mallet was hung across the bowstave, being fastened to their leathern shoulder-belt by a hook in the centre of the handle. Steel caps, mail brigandines, white surcoats with the red lion of St. Sir Thomas Wake was beaten to the ground with a battle-axe-that being the weapon which he had selected-and had to be carried to his pavilion. (The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) It was clear that the natives had come out upon the war-path, for every man carried his spear-a long bamboo tipped with bone-his bow and arrows, and some sort of club or stone battle-axe slung at his side. (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)įrom one of these I picked a battle-axe, and then, leaving my candle behind me, I crept on tiptoe down the passage and peeped in at the open door. Horse and spear had been set aside, but on foot, with sword and battle-axe, their broad shields slung in front of them, the chivalry of Spain rushed to the attack.
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