Subject: húskarl noble warrior

Culture: Viking

Setting: Northern Europe late 10-13thc

Object: breitox broad-ax

* Royal Ontario Museum > Samuel European Galleries > Arms and Armor

"Hache d'arme viking

Fer, typique de la Norvège orientale. 900-1025 ...

Autre arme de attaque importante: la hache. Maniée avec puissance et dextérité, elle était d'une efficacité sans fois poétiques et féroces, dont <<Démon du bouclier>>, <<Sorcière du combat>> et <<Loup de la blessure>>. Les différentes sortes de haches d'arme dont se servaient les Vikings resemblaient à la hache des bûcherons, mais elles étaient beaucoup plus grandes."

* Royal Armouries Museum > War

"'Danish' axe The battle-axe appeared as an important weapon in Scandinavia in about the 8th century, in the form of the 'bearded' axe, with a curved edge dropping towards the shaft.

Possibly Viking, 10th-11th century." ....

Royal Armouires Museum > War *

"'Danish' axes By the 10th century the bearded axe had been developed into the broad 'Danish' axe favoured by the better-armed infantry (huscarls) of the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and other north European nations. Possibly Viking, 10th-11th century. Found in the River Witham near Horsley Deep, Lincolnshire ...." ...

* Jorvik Viking Centre

"Larger axes could kill a man or a horse with one blow."

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