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Published: 2019-08-02 13:21:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 7103; Favourites: 250; Downloads: 51
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Part one here.More weird weapons, this time all from Italy. With the exception of two weapons found in historical paintings, all the others are historical finds that range from the 8th to 19th century. I won't write much here this time since most I have to say is already written on the image itself, if you can understand my atrocious handwriting.
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Again, these are all weapons that are almost unknown and extremely unappreciated, they deserve more attention!
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Oh, beidanas look so interesting, they are like a cross between a cleaver and a sword! They are heavy and yet so strangely elegant, I think I might be in love. 
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Using this for a base for my next drawing...
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Very nasty looking, simple crude and probably easy for the local small town village blacksmith to produce. Similar were used in Ireland during our various revolts - one thing that was common was the war scythe - easy to produce, take a scythe blade re-work it to face upwards and sharpen both sides till like a razor.
The average Irish farmer/footsoldier now has something terrifying as in capable of sending arms flying off and the long reach made them lethal against anyone on horseback.
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Maybe it is! That one is a mystery
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I love the heart-shaped hole. It's like killing them with love! XDΒ
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Haha I know right? They were a heretic Christain sect after all... XD
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It will chop the competition.
ok I'll stop now.
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Weird but certainly functional.
My favorite unappreciated and almost unknown weird historic weapon is the Lantern Shield.
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Yep! Similar to everyday tools
That's amazing!
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Honestly, THESE are fantasy blades. Not the spiky demon blades of hellish hatred and murderf**king.
Hell yeah! I love these Offensive Defense Tools so much that the main antagonist in my story project wields one (only his is made of hardlight rather than steel.)
Inquistor Atlas
I like to think that they were the renaissance equivalent to the definition of Tacti-cool
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You are welcome.
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Very cool, and again, thank you for doing it!
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Anybody know where I can buy a good Flensing Iron?Β I have this whale carcass, and it's gotta go...
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Not here, my apologies kind sir. perhaps in the shop on the other side of the road.
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A lot of these look like they belong in a butcherβs shop
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That's what they are, in a way. Many weapons were repurposed tools easily made by local blacksmiths.
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the smaller and thinner one might be for actual combat as it has less weight and can swing faster and also has a kind of point while the tri blade hook thing might be some sort of side to side sweeper for harvesting crops with a point for stabbing?
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I think they were all for combat, to some degree
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i thought those were mostly harvest machetes.
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They were the most common weapons available to the drafted or impressed soldier.
The common folk were the majority of βsoldiersβ in wars back then. A large well armed army of trained soldiers was expensive to equip and maintain.
So there was usually a small equipped army that was supplemented with town folks drafted into service. These folks brought what they had to the fight. A large cleaver is a very good weapon.
Even the timing of war was based on agricultural needs. Harvest and planting times were sort of time out. Once that was done it was back to fighting.
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Indeed, pretty much repurposed tools that could be easily made by local blacksmiths. Unfortunately these weapons are rarely prserved simply because people back then didn't care too much.
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Weapons, old tools were always reforged once they lost their usefulness.
A cleaver was less historically interesting as a sword or battle axe.
A loss indeed but not unexpected.
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Italian falchions / machetes, nice 
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Haha yep! Something unusual!
Who know, his weird hybrid push-halberd thingy was not too different. A spike and blades on the side, if I remember well.
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The Italians actually made heart-shaped holes on their swords?
Brings an entirely new meaning to heart attacks
(and I wonder if these heart holes might have inspired the sheer melodramatic romance that is Romeo and Juliet? Okay, maybe this time I'm trailing waaaaayyy too far 
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Just the Waldensians
haha yeah, that's s stretch XD Verona is pretty damn far from Piedmont.
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