Saber helmet beard
| Saber helmet beard | |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Polearm |
| Designations: | Saber helmet beard , English: Saber halberd |
| Use: | weapon |
| Creation time: | 16th Century |
| Working time: | 16th to 17th centuries |
| Region of origin / author: |
Europe , armory |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Overall length: | about 200 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
| Particularities: | Saber blade |
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A saber helmet beard is a cutting and stabbing weapon . It is a rare special form of the helmet beard .
description
The saber helmet beard has a slightly curved instead of a sharp blade saber blade as a peak, may be injured with the non- or lightly armored enemy so that they die from blood loss. Particularly pretty and elaborately crafted saber helmet beards are assigned a ceremonial role as a guards, city guard and non-commissioned officer weapon, with which it was difficult to fight, whereas the simply crafted purely military purposes. Saber helmet beards were in use in the 16th and 17th centuries and were used, for example, in the Thirty Years War .
See also
literature
- Michael Gordon, Hans Fahrmbacher: Guide through the Royal Bavarian Army Museum . Lindauer Verlag, Munich 1905, pp. 62–63.
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Hrsg.): Display for customer of the German prehistoric times . Nuremberg 1881, No. 12.
- Heribert Seitz: Edged weapons. A Weapons History Handbook, Vol. 2. From the 16th to the 19th century . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1968, pp. 216-218.
- Vladimir Dolínek, Jan Durdík: Historical weapons . Dausien-Verlag, Hanau 1995, ISBN 3-7684-1436-1 .