Bearded iron

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As Bearded iron is any spears and skewers whose blades with barbs are provided. The barbs are used to hold the weapon in the body of the enemy or the prey. Since the blade cannot be easily removed, mobility is impaired and there is high blood loss. This type of weapon was used all over the world.

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.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The basis of this book is a series of articles that were published in the journal Deutsches Waffen-Journal between vol. 14 (1978), issue 11 and issue 16 (1980), issue 10, ISSN  0341-8936 .