List of historical swords information

This is a list of notable individual swords, known either from historical record or from surviving artifacts. These swords do not survive as artifacts...

Lists of swords: List of historical swords List of Japanese swords List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords) List of Wazamono List of mythological...

of mythological swords. Swords that originate in epic poems, tales and chronicles that were taken at one time as a "true" accounting of history rather...

of swords; a sword was simply a single-edged or double-edged knife. Historical terms without a universal consensus of definition (i.e. "arming sword",...

This is a list of types of swords. The term sword used here is a narrow definition. This is not a general List of premodern combat weapons and does not...

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regarded, this sword was believed to be Joyeuse, the sword of Charlemagne. List of historical swords Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths ch. XXXV...

For films pertaining to the history of Near Eastern and Western civilisation, please refer to list of historical period drama films and series set in...

A Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as...

second of the two magical swords of Ogier the Dane. Colada, the other sword of El Cid. Lobera (Wolf Slayer), the sword of the king Saint Ferdinand III of Castile...

thrusting swords with poor cutting abilities as rapiers, and swords with both good thrusting and cutting abilities as cut-and-thrust swords. The term...

Historically, Chinese swords are classified into two types, the jian and the dao. A Jian is a straight, double-edged sword mainly used for stabbing, and...

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as such. Also known as "tiger hook swords" or qian kun ri yue dao (literally "Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon sword"), these weapons have a sharp blade...

Kotō (old swords from around 900–1596) Shintō (new swords 1596–1780) Shinshintō (newer swords 1781–1876) Gendaitō (modern or contemporary swords 1876–present)...

is a list of characters from the wuxia novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong. Some of these characters are fictionalised personas of, or...

Masamune's swords are deemed holy swords. In one version of the story, Muramasa is killed for creating evil swords. While all known legends of the two ever...

to stray finds in riverbeds. Swords of the 8th to 10th centuries are also termed "Carolingian swords", while swords of the late Viking Age and the beginning...

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The production of the Arab sword has four distinct periods: Pre-Islamic (ancient swords before the 7th century), Early Islamic (old swords 7th to 8th centuries)...

Historical European martial arts (HEMA) are martial arts of European origin, particularly using arts formerly practised, but having since died out or...

(1984). Sword and Sorceress. New York: DAW Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-87997-928-3. Strahan, Jonathan; Anders, Lou (2010). Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and...

of Swords, which was edited by Dozois alone. Dozois notes in his introduction that this anthology is set to focus on the fantasy sub-genre of sword and...