03-20-2013, 04:38 PM
They may have been military spears, though.
I cannot for the moment remember where, but I have read an article by a researcher who claimed that it was a mistake to identify the function of the late Roman/early medieval wings with that of the stoppers of the hunting spear. He believed these wings had a function in a fencing type of spear fighting, but his story did not make clear to me how exactly that would have worked.
I cannot for the moment remember where, but I have read an article by a researcher who claimed that it was a mistake to identify the function of the late Roman/early medieval wings with that of the stoppers of the hunting spear. He believed these wings had a function in a fencing type of spear fighting, but his story did not make clear to me how exactly that would have worked.