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Comments on: Q&A: Medieval Battle Axe, how to properly fight with a battle axe? https://www.medievalclothing.com/2008/09/13/qa-medieval-battle-axe-how-to-properly-fight-with-a-battle-axe/ Medieval & Renaissance Costumes and Clothing. Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dapifer https://www.medievalclothing.com/2008/09/13/qa-medieval-battle-axe-how-to-properly-fight-with-a-battle-axe/#comment-17295 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:19:59 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-medieval-battle-axe-how-to-properly-fight-with-a-battle-axe/#comment-17295 Hmm, there are axes and there are axes. If you’re thinking about a short, early medieval axe like a franisca, the information is scanty. Early medieval people simply didn’t write treatises on how to use their weapons. The folks at Hurstwic have collected about as much as is known about the subject on this page here: http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_axe.htm . Beyond that, you would probably have to do some original research and read sources like the Norse sagas and early chroniclers, looking for axe references.

If you’re interested in late medieval pole axes, there’s a French treatise from the end of the Middle Ages called Le Jeu de la Hache. You can read an article about it, including a translation of the treatise, here: http://www.thearma.org/spotlight/lejeudelahache.htm

The early fifteenth-century Italian fighting master Fiore dei Liberi also had a few axe plays in his treatise, the Fior di Battaglia. They’re in the section on fighting in armour: http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/liberi/wildRose/section6.html .

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