A Celtic knotwork sword carries the interlaced band somewhere structural: cut into the guard, wrapped round the ricasso or etched along the blade. It is a search made by people who want the decoration to be part of the sword rather than a print on a display box. The shapes here range from a Highland hand and a half down to a short Norse blade.
Where the knot is worked in
Ringwolf is the largest, a 47 inch hand and a half sword with a ring terminal guard, a knotwork ricasso wrap and a steel scabbard. Ivorycrest and Snowhilt both put the knotwork into the guard of a 37 inch arming sword, one with a brass hilt and wheel pommel, the other with a white leather grip and brass toned fittings. Cloverhilt uses a quatrefoil blackened guard with triple fullers and a green leather grip. Oathbright is the Norse one, a 30 inch Viking sword with a knotwork guard, a block pommel and a linen scabbard, and Silverhilt is a 26 inch short sword with an engraved knotwork hilt. Sawreave is a Damascus falchion with a sawback spine and a knotwork guard, and Knotcurve takes the band onto a 1095 katana with a blackened tsuba.
The historical side is in Anglo Saxon and Celtic, the cross hilted blades in arming swords, and the Norse shapes in Viking swords.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
