07-21-2008, 12:22 PM
Mostly it is reconstructed as a part of the belt
http://www.westfali.de/ARCHEON_0604_2.JPG
This si simulary to a picture of the above mentioned Stuttgarter Psalter.
Short versions are used together wit the Spatha, as seen in grave finds.
Charles the Great ordered it to the equipment, which a rider should have on campaign in a letter to the Abbot Fulrad of St. Denise.
The short versions are used as the former pugio, as fighting knife.
The long version the Langsax is a substitute for the Spatha, but only by the Frisian and Saxon tribes and distinguishes after the territory comes part of the empire.
A lot differences are in the hole findings of this weapon, in quality productions and morphology, some are very simple steel, some are of several traces of damask patterns.
So the actually dates and explains…
http://www.westfali.de/ARCHEON_0604_2.JPG
This si simulary to a picture of the above mentioned Stuttgarter Psalter.
Short versions are used together wit the Spatha, as seen in grave finds.
Charles the Great ordered it to the equipment, which a rider should have on campaign in a letter to the Abbot Fulrad of St. Denise.
The short versions are used as the former pugio, as fighting knife.
The long version the Langsax is a substitute for the Spatha, but only by the Frisian and Saxon tribes and distinguishes after the territory comes part of the empire.
A lot differences are in the hole findings of this weapon, in quality productions and morphology, some are very simple steel, some are of several traces of damask patterns.
So the actually dates and explains…
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