Sword breaker
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| Creation time: | 16th Century |
| Working time: | 16th to 17th centuries |
| Distribution: | Europe |
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The epee breaker is an early modern parrying dagger that is used to catch the opponent's blade ( blade catcher ).
The rapier crusher was common in Italy and Germany in the 16th - 17th centuries . It consists of a strong, wide blade with deep notches so that the blade looks like a comb. Due to the arrow-shaped prongs, the opposing blade slipped easily into the notch, but pulling it out was more difficult because the blade tilted slightly when it was pulled out. This effect has been reinforced in some epee breakers by installing spring-loaded locking hooks in the prongs . Attempting to pull out the epee blade blocks the hook and thereby jams the opponent's blade. The quillons of the epee breakers were straight or curved in an S-shape.
Likewise, blades with prongs and incisions were attached to shields as blade catchers and also called epee breakers . At the beginning of the 20th century, the term Franconian hook was also used in literature . This use of the term is no longer verifiable in later literature.
literature
- Heinz Werner Lewerken: Combination weapons of the 15th – 19th centuries Century. Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic , 1989, ISBN 3327005168 , pages 125–126
- Wendelin Boeheim : Handbook of the armory. Verlag EA Seemann , Leipzig 1890, digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive p. 299
- Eduard Wagner: cutting and stabbing weapons. 2nd Edition. Werner Dausien Verlag, Hanau 1975, ISBN 3-7684-1589-8 .
- Ewart Oakeshott : European Weapons and Armor: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution , The Lutterworth Press, 1980, p. 230
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lewerken, 1989, pp. 125-126
- ↑ Boeheim 1890, pp. 187-188
- ↑ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , fifth edition, volume 1. Leipzig 1911., p. 605 [1]
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, p. 842 [2]