Haudegen ( him. Haudegen, Haudegenklinge ) - type dlinnoklinkovogo weapons. A 19th-century Austrian gunsmith , Vendalen Beheim, defines him as a combat sword with a single-blade blade and a double-edged edge [1] .
At the same time, the modern German author Thomas Lifeble is a defining characteristic of Haudegen that considers the presence of a basket hilt in the absence of a cross. Single-edged sharpening of the majority of copies allows to refer them to broadswords , a smaller part has a double-sided sharpening, and thus is swords .
Such weapons were often found in England, especially during the civil war, and became known as the “mortuary sword”. This name appeared due to the fact that many copies had on the hilt images of a human head [2] . English collectors of the XIX century mistakenly decided that the royalists thus supported the memory of the execution of Charles I. At present, it is known that such decorations have been used since at least 1635, that is, 14 years before the king was executed [3] . Nevertheless, the term “mortuary sword” continues to be widely used.
Notes
- ↑ Beheim, Vendalen. Encyclopedia of Weapons (Guide to Arms Research. Arms in its historical development from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the end of the XVIII century.) / Executive editor S.V. Yeremenko. - St. Petersburg: Orchestra JSC, 1995. - p. 213. - 576 p. - ISBN 5-87685-029-2 .
- ↑ Lable, Thomas. Sword. Great illustrated encyclopedia. - M .: Omega, 2011. - p. 128. - 232 p. - ISBN 978-3-938711-05-7 .
- ↑ Withers, Harvey J. Swords and swords. Great Encyclopedia. - M .: Our word, Eksmo, 2012. - p. 47. - 256 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-49020-2 .
Links
- Armor Class Mortuary Hilt Sword (inaccessible link) - An overview of the replica of the "mortuary sword" from the company Armor Class on the site MyArmoury.
- Hanwei / CAS Iberia Mortuary Sword (inaccessible link) - Review of the replica of the "mortuary sword" from the company CAS Iberia / Hanwei on the site MyArmoury.