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Several weapons including the kesja and the hoeggspjot appearing in the sagas are viking halberds.

Gratis spelletjes mahjong shanghai. However scandinavian sagas make references to a number of pole weapons usually translated as halberd or bill. Unless archaeology or other new evidence suggests otherwise the atgeir is probably best regarded as an element of thirteenth century license when retelling the sagas. An atgeir sometimes called a mail piercer or hewing spear was a type of polearm in use in viking age scandinavia and norse colonies in the british isles and iceland.

Norse mythology maltet the name of the spear of baligant from the song. Atgeir is usually translated as halberd akin to a glaive. An atgeir sometimes called a mail piercer or hewing spear was a type of polearm in use in viking age scandinavia and norse colonies in the british isles and iceland.

The spear is described as being so well balanced that it could strike any target no matter the skill or strength of the wielder. It is usually translated in english as halberd but most likely closer resembled a bill or glaive during the viking age. It is usually translated in english as halberd but most likely closer resembled a bill or glaive during the viking age.

Norse mythology gunnars atgeir gunnars atgeir would make a ringing sound or sing when it was taken down in anticipation of bloodshed. The atgeir was a type of bill or halberd from old norse geirr spear. Many are distinguished by the length of the pole and the shape of the weaponized end of the pole.

The atgeirr is thought to have been a foreign weapon and is rarely mentioned in the sagas but is famous as the favorite weapon of gunnar of hlidarendi. But the defining features of atgeir are not clearly described and the range of different kinds of spearheads suggested as related to this weapon is frustratingly wide. This paper draws on saga material with the aim to describe essential characteristics of atgeir which differentiate.

No weapon matching their descriptions have been found in graves. An atgeir sometimes called a mail piercer or hewing spear was a type of polearm in use in viking age scandinavia and norse colonies in the british isles and iceland. It is usually translated in english as halberd but most likely closer resembled a bill or glaive during the viking age.

It is also magical. Nowadays researchers prefer to view atgeir as a kind of spear. A polearm also known as a pole weapon is a weapon in which the point of contact is fixed to a long shaft typically made of wood.

In njals saga gunnar uses an atgeir which has a reasonably detailed description and sounds much more like a later polearm than any type of known spear. These weapons are used to cut and to stab but their names suggest they were derived from the spear rather than a cutting weapon eg.