Restraint (bladed weapon)
A stopper or curb toggle is the cross piece that is attached to a winged lance , a gag spit , bear iron , spontaneous , booze sword or a boar spring across the shaft .
description
The hold-up prevents an animal or an opponent from “running up” on the polearm after the stab has been stabbed. So it should stop the enemy. This is for the safety of the hunter or the soldier. A restraint is usually forged from the blade. If it is a barrier made of metal, wood or horn that is fastened transversely to the shaft, it is called a cuff toggle. There were plugged variants with a rigid connection and also bound variants that were fastened with leather straps, for example.
literature
- Gerhard Seifert: Technical terms of edged weapons. German ABC of the European naked defensive weapons. (Cut, thrust, hit and hand thrown weapons). Verlag Seifert, Haig 1981.
- Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer: Real Lexicon of Germanic antiquity . 2nd Edition. tape 9 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , pp. 252 f . ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gerhard Seifert: Technical Terms of Edged Weapons ( Memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), 2007 edition (online PDF 2.0 MB).