Subject: húskarl noble warrior
Culture: Viking
Setting: Northern Europe late 10-13thc
Object: breitox broad-ax
National Museum of Ireland -- Archaeology > Viking Dublin *
"Iron axehead with wooden handle River Robe, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo" ...
"Iron axehead with wooden handle River Shannon" ...
* Royal Ontario Museum > Samuel European Galleries > Arms and Armor
"Hache d'arme viking
Fer, typique de la Norvège orientale. 900-1025 ...
Autre arme de attaque importante: la hache. Maniée avec puissance et dextérité, elle était d'une efficacité sans fois poétiques et féroces, dont <<Démon du bouclier>>, <<Sorcière du combat>> et <<Loup de la blessure>>. Les différentes sortes de haches d'arme dont se servaient les Vikings resemblaient à la hache des bûcherons, mais elles étaient beaucoup plus grandes."
* Royal Armouries Museum > War
Possibly Viking, 10th-11th century." ....
Royal Armouires Museum > War *
"'Danish' axes By the 10th century the bearded axe had been developed into the broad 'Danish' axe favoured by the better-armed infantry (huscarls) of the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and other north European nations. Possibly Viking, 10th-11th century. Found in the River Witham near Horsley Deep, Lincolnshire ...." ...
* Jorvik Viking Centre
"Larger axes could kill a man or a horse with one blow."
* National Museum of Ireland -- Archaeology > Viking Dublin
"Miniature coppery alloy axehead
Lough O'Flynn, Co. Roscommon" ...
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