A short sword is the length that gets used. Anything under about 30 inches can be drawn in a doorway, carried on a belt all day and swung indoors without redecorating. It was the standard sidearm for most of European history for exactly that reason. These are all hand forged in 1095 rather than ground from bar stock.
Blade shapes and lengths
The leaf blades come first. Bronzeleaf is 27 inches overall with a bronze guard and pommel, a burgundy leather grip and an etched meander band. Leafborn uses a downswept engraved crossguard with a ribbed bone toned grip and a veg tan sheath. The Norse blades are broader. Grimtide is the shortest at 21 inches overall with a triple fullered blade and a ribbed leather grip. Silverhilt is 26 inches with an engraved knotwork hilt, and Trinecrown is 31 inches with a triquetra engraved disc pommel and a cream cord grip. Sawglade adds a sawback spine to a polished blade with a stacked leather grip and etched chevrons. Chainfell is the strange one, a pair of long curved blades with ring pommels on blackened chains and two scabbards.
They sit in short swords, with the Norse shapes also in Viking swords. If this would be a first purchase, read how to buy your first sword.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
