Pointy Stuff from 600 AD

[eisman]

4 October is a national holiday in Germany, basically equivalent to July 4th in the USA. This year I decided to spend the day in Saarbrucken, where despite the rain they were holding a 3 day festival. All the parking and museums were free, and as always there was plenty of food. But I thought you might be interested in these swords and knives, on display in the local history museum, mostly from an archeologic site dated back to 600-625 AD.

Folding Knives

Seax (reproduction sheath)

Swords

Grave goods

 

[Mk-211]

Here's an even older one, think the article said 3000 years old.



ETA: https://ulukayin.org/3000-year-old-sword-urnfield-culture-germany/

 

[DocJD]

4 October is a national holiday in Germany, basically equivalent to July 4th in the USA. This year I decided to spend the day in Saarbrucken, where despite the rain they were holding a 3 day festival. All the parking and museums were free, and as always there was plenty of food. But I thought you might be interested in these swords and knives, on display in the local history museum, mostly from an archeologic site dated back to 600-625 AD.

Folding Knives

Seax (reproduction sheath)

Swords

Grave goods

Cool ! Especially the folders .

 

[wharncliffe]

Very cool, indeed! Thanks for a rare and thoughtful contribution.

 

[Wolverine666]

Folding knives back then? I had no idea. Very interesting.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

Bet those folders couldn't pass a spine whack test. Boggles the mind how many fingers were lost

Really cool stuff and thanks!

 

[DocJD]

spine whack test

Back then , they used real spines !

 

[Hammer67]

Sometimes I'm bummed I missed Peak Pointy Stuff.

 

[Triton]

4 October is a national holiday in Germany, basically equivalent to July 4th in the USA. This year I decided to spend the day in Saarbrucken, where despite the rain they were holding a 3 day festival. All the parking and museums were free, and as always there was plenty of food. But I thought you might be interested in these swords and knives, on display in the local history museum, mostly from an archeologic site dated back to 600-625 AD.

Folding Knives

Seax (reproduction sheath)

Swords

Grave goods

Thanks for sharing these! Interesting that the sword seems to be missing both the lower guard and half the upper guard. The implication might be that they were both made of some sort of organic material. That's also an extremely robust sax! Vielen dank!

 

[DangerZone98]

You mean to tell me Lynn Thompson didn’t invent the world’s first folding knife?!

Joking. Sweet piece of history there. I had no idea folders dated way long ago.

 

[John A. Larsen]

What surprises me is that the tang of the two Seaxs, look more substantial, than the tang of the swords. John

 

[LimuHead]

Very cool!

Samsung's AI translator translated the text for me from German to English.