A Damascus short sword puts the folded billet in a blade you can actually use indoors. Between 26 and 38 inches overall, it draws without clearing a room, hangs on a wall without dominating it, and shows the pattern at a distance where a knife would not. That combination is why this length sells better than any other to people buying their first patterned blade.
The blades here
Every blade is forge welded 1095 and 15N20 at 58 to 60 HRC, etched so the layers read along the length. The Roman pieces are a gladius at 27 inches overall with a 20 inch blade, and a leaf bladed gladius at 26 inches with a bronze meander guard, an oxblood grip and a matching scabbard. The Norse end brings a short sword at 28 inches with a 21 inch blade, a falchion with a Celtic knotwork guard, a sawback spine and a cap pommel in a tooled leather sheath, and a tanto sword with a valknut etched blade, a black cord wrapped handle and a round steel tsuba. The rest cover a side sword at 38 inches with a 31 inch blade, a black scabbard, a brass throat and hanger rings, a short sword at 28 inches with a pierced shell guard, red panels and a knotwork boss, a flame bladed short sword at 27 inches with a brass ring guard and a faceted pommel, a basket hilt short sword with a vegvisir engraved brass cage and a tan grip, and one with a serrated spine and a notched steel guard in a black belt sheath. Prices run from 289 dollars to 549 dollars.
Shopping by shape
The names on this page belong to genuinely different traditions, and the shape decides how it handles far more than the pattern does. The Roman blades are in gladius, the European cleaver shapes are in falchions, the caged and shell hilts are in basket and shell hilt swords, and everything of this length sits together in short swords.
Ransack Viking is a US company based in Memphis, Tennessee. These pieces are handmade in the Czech Republic, then imported, inspected and shipped from Memphis. Engraving is done in the US after arrival: text 19 dollars, symbol 39 dollars, family crest 49 dollars.
Free US shipping
On most pieces. Heavier and oversized ones carry a flat charge.
Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
