List of sword types
This list of sword types includes swords from different cultures.
It also contains a list of well-known mythological and named swords.
An alphabetical listing of swords from different ages and cultures can be found in the list of swords .
Types of swords by origin
Africa
- Bali sword
- Bwaka (sword)
- Fang sword
- Flyssa
- Ful sword
- Kaskara
- Konda sword
- Lulua sword
- Mandinka sword
- Mbuun sword
- Nande sword
- Ngombe sword
- Ovimbundu sword
- Pende sword
- Shotel
- So sword
- Takouba
- Tuareg short sword
- Tuareg mandingo sword
- Yaka sword
Mandinka sword
Konda sword
Antiquity
China
Europe
- Hand and a half sword
- Backsword
- Cinquedea
- Claymore
- Sword
- Dussack
- Cutlass
- Espada Ropera
- Estoc
- Falchion
- Flamberge
- Katzbalger
- Long sword
- Mortuary Sword
- Pallasch
- rapier
- Guiding sword
- Knight sword
- saber
- Sax
- Schiavona
- Schiavonesca
- Swiss sword
- Two handed
Japan
- Bokutō
- Chokutō
- Dōtanuki
- Katana
- Kodachi
- Nagamaki
- Nihonto
- Nodachi
- Ōdachi
- Shikomizue
- Shinai
- Tachi
- Tsurugi
- Wakizashi
- Uchigatana
middle East
South asia
South East Asia
Mesoamerica
Historical and mythological swords
- Arondight - sword of Sir Lancelot in the Arthurian legend.
- Balmung - Siegfried's sword in the Nibelungenlied
- Gram (also Balmung or Notung) - sword of Siegfried the dragon slayer in Germanic mythology.
- Caladbolg - sword used by Fergus mac Róich in Irish mythology.
- Crocea Mors - alleged sword of Julius Caesar .
- Sword of Damocles - sword of the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse in an anecdote by Cicero .
- Dhu l-faqar (also Zulfiqar, Zulfikar) - Holy Sword of Islam, was wielded by the Prophet Mohammed and the Caliph Ali .
- Durendal - Sword of Count Hruotland (Roland).
- Eckesachs - sword of the legendary figures corner and Dietrich von Bern in the German heroic saga.
- Excalibur (also Caliburn) - sword of the legendary King Arthur .
- Galatine - Sword of Sir Gawan in the Arthurian legend.
- Grus - sword of the Polish king Bolesław III. Crooked mouth .
- Hrunting - sword from the old English hero poem Beowulf .
- Joyeuse - sword of Charlemagne .
- Kusanagi - one of the three throne insignia of the Japanese imperial family.
- Mimung - sword forged by Wieland the blacksmith in the German heroic legend.
- Nagelring - sword from the Thidrek saga and the German hero saga. Belonged to Dietrich von Bern and later to homes .
- Imperial sword - one of the imperial regalia of the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire .
- Szczerbiec - sword of the Polish kings.
- Tizona - sword of the Castilian knight El Cid .
- Tyrfing - sword from Norse mythology .
- Ceremonial sword - like the imperial sword, one of the imperial regalia of the Holy Roman Empire.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wendelin Boeheim : Handbook of Armament. Reprint d. Ed. Leipzig 1890, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 978-3-201-00257-8 .
- ↑ George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times Verlag Courier Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5