For all those knowledgeable in things Nordic / Viking wanted your opinion on a proper Viking seax knife. Will be a 10-12" blade. Do you consider a seax more of the straight or 'toothpick' style or the 'broken back' type that (to my knowledge) the saxons seemed to favor? Appreciate all replies.
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Proper Seax Knife: Toothpick or Broken back?
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Seax can have a variety of tip designs and still be considered a seax. If I remember correctly a broken back Seax is sort of like a clip point. I am not sure what you meen by "toothpick" design as I have seen things from huge bowies to tiny slipjoints be described as "toothpick" (Arkansas Toothpick, Tennessee Toothpick, Texas Toothpick). Some of these "toothpicks" have spear point, most had some kind of clip point. So then a broken back and a "toothpick" seax would both be clipped pointesque blades?
A tip isn't what determines if a blade is a Seax or not. There are seax with many different types of tips and no one type is more a seax than another.
A tip isn't what determines if a blade is a Seax or not. There are seax with many different types of tips and no one type is more a seax than another.