The longsword is a straight, double-edged blade with a grip long enough for two hands, used across Europe from roughly the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.Hand-and-a-halfIt is often called a hand-and-a-half sword because the grip allows either one or two hands. That is the whole design: one hand for reach and a shield or a free hand, two hands for leverage and control in the bind. The cross guard is long enough to protect the hands during that exchange.Ours are hand-forged from high-carbon or Damascus steel with wood or leather-wrapped grips and steel fittings.Please check your local law before ordering.
Made by hand in the Czech Republic, imported by Ransack Viking and shipped from our Memphis, Tennessee warehouse. Any engraving you add is carried out here in the United States.
Two handed reach puts real load on the blade, so the steel matters, and this comparison of high carbon and Damascus lays out the trade. On the earlier blades that led to this one, the Ulfberht swords are the interesting chapter.
24 pieces in this collection
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
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Inspected and dispatched from our Tennessee warehouse. No import duty, no customs delay on US orders.
