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Captain Leale Martelli - The Odyssey in the Realms of Time
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<blockquote data-quote="Mayhem" data-source="post: 167129" data-attributes="member: 9738"><p>The battle axe is thought to be Ireland's national weapon.</p><p></p><p>Here's a little information.</p><p></p><p>In the early Viking-Age axeheads are found in a limited range of forms, which may have been used for fighting or for wood-working. Later, the two forms become distinct. From the beginning, the Vikings were closely associated with axes - neither Irish nor Anglo-Saxon groups used them in battle at the beginning of the Viking Age. </p><p></p><p>This battle axe was quickly adopted by the Irish and became so much a part of the culture that in one version of his twelfth-century <em>Topographia Hibernica</em>, 'The Topography of Ireland', Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) treated the axe as almost the national weapon of Ireland:</p><p></p><p><em>".. and they also carry, heavy battle-axes of iron, exceedingly well wrought and tempered. These they borrowed from the Norwegians and Ostmen, of whom we shall speak hereafter. But in striking with the battle-axe they use only one hand, instead of both, clasping the haft firmly, and raising it above the head, so as to direct the blow with such force that neither the helmets which protect our heads, nor the platting of the coat of mail which defends the rest of our bodies, can resist the stroke.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Thus it has happened, in my own time, that one blow of the axe has cut off a knight's thigh, although it was encased in iron, the thigh and leg falling on one side of his horse, and the body of the dying horseman on the other."</em></p><p></p><p> Giraldus Cambrensis, <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf" target="_blank">The Topography of Ireland</a>, ed. and trans. by Thomas Forester, rev. and ed. by Thomas Wright (Cambridge, Ontario, 2000), p. 69.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mayhem, post: 167129, member: 9738"] The battle axe is thought to be Ireland's national weapon. Here's a little information. In the early Viking-Age axeheads are found in a limited range of forms, which may have been used for fighting or for wood-working. Later, the two forms become distinct. From the beginning, the Vikings were closely associated with axes - neither Irish nor Anglo-Saxon groups used them in battle at the beginning of the Viking Age. This battle axe was quickly adopted by the Irish and became so much a part of the culture that in one version of his twelfth-century [I]Topographia Hibernica[/I], 'The Topography of Ireland', Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) treated the axe as almost the national weapon of Ireland: [I]".. and they also carry, heavy battle-axes of iron, exceedingly well wrought and tempered. These they borrowed from the Norwegians and Ostmen, of whom we shall speak hereafter. But in striking with the battle-axe they use only one hand, instead of both, clasping the haft firmly, and raising it above the head, so as to direct the blow with such force that neither the helmets which protect our heads, nor the platting of the coat of mail which defends the rest of our bodies, can resist the stroke. Thus it has happened, in my own time, that one blow of the axe has cut off a knight's thigh, although it was encased in iron, the thigh and leg falling on one side of his horse, and the body of the dying horseman on the other."[/I] Giraldus Cambrensis, [URL='http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf']The Topography of Ireland[/URL], ed. and trans. by Thomas Forester, rev. and ed. by Thomas Wright (Cambridge, Ontario, 2000), p. 69. [/QUOTE]
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