| Two-Handed Infantry Sword with parrying-hooks | Processional two-handed swords are usually heavier, true, but rarely more than 10 lbs |
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| Historical fencing researcher and author, Grzegorz Zabinski, observes, "It can be assumed that the two-handed infantry swords were a culminating point of one of the directions of the evolution of swords, that aimed to increase their efficiency against plate by means of increasing their dimensions and weight, and, quite naturally, their impact | European sword making technologies throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance were quite capable of producing high-quality, lightweight, and flexible steel blades for cutting swords that could hold keen edges |
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6| Length: 1428 mm inches Blade: 1048 mm inches Weight: 2730 g 5 | By comparison, a single-hand sword of 38-inches in the same collection weighed 3 |
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| Blade's width at the shoulder 43 mm, at the parrying-hooks 36 mm, behind the parrying-hooks 50 mm, at the point 33 mm | These weapons were used primarily for fighting among pike-squares where they would hack paths through knocking aside poles, possibly even lobbing the ends off opposing halberds and pikes then slashing and stabbing among the ranks |