Basket-Hilt
A closed basket variant that was used with several types of swords is called the Basket Hilt . Among other things with the types: Scottish basket sword, Schiavona and with most versions of the Mortuary Swords . Depending on the size and design, a distinction is made between the following variants:
- "One-third Bakekt Hilt"
- "Half Basket Hilt"
- "Two-third Bakekt Hilt"
- "Three-quarter Bakekt Hilt"
literature
- Cyril Mazansky: British Basket-hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-type Sword Hilts , Boydell Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84383-053-5 .
- 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.
- John Wallace: Scottish swords and dirks: an illustrated reference guide to Scottish edged weapons , Stackpole Books, 1970.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cyril Mazansky: British Basket-hilted Swords , Chapter 1, Pages 5 ff. ( Partial preview online )