Handle-tongue sword
In archeology, a handle-tongue sword is the type of sword with a handle-tongue (tang) in which the handle is placed on an extension of the blade that runs through the handle , in contrast to the handle plate sword or the full-handle sword . The term was coined by Dr. Julius Naue , when he classified these swords in his work The Pre-Roman Swords of Copper, Bronze and Iron . In his honor, the type designations "Naue I" and "Naue II" were chosen later. There are around 350 known finds of the "common finger-tongue sword" in Northern Europe, most of which are assigned to the Bronze Age. Oscar Montelius is known to have made more accurate dates for such Bronze Age finds in Scandinavia. Several swords have been dated after periods of Montelius. A distinction is made in the typology of handle-tongue swords:
- the old hilted swords (with subgroups, around 200 finds)
- the common hilted swords (with subgroups, around 350 finds)
- the young finger-tongue swords (with subgroups, around 80 finds of the "swords with a narrow tongue")
- the Central European handle-tongue swords (with subgroups)
Other variants can be found under the term shank of prehistoric knives, daggers and swords .
literature
- John D. Cowen: Introduction to the history of the bronze handle-tongue swords in southern Germany . In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Vol. 33 (1955), pp. 52–155
- Tibor Kemenczei: The Swords in Hungary . Beck, Munich 1988
- 1. Grip plate, grip tang and grip tongue swords . 1988, ISBN 3-406-32314-6
- Julius Naue: The pre-Roman swords made of copper, bronze and iron . Piloty & Loehle, Munich 1903
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Peter Schauer : The swords in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- 1. Grip plates, grip rods and grip tongue swords . Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-00750-3 (prehistoric bronze finds; vol. 4)
- Ernst Sprockhoff: The Germanic handle-tongue swords . De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 1931
- Harry Wüstemann: The swords in East Germany . Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-515-08441-X (with the appendix "Josef Rieder: Fundstoff - Directory of museums and collections")