Weapons Typology

This is the sister page to re-enactment blade buying. Hopefully these two pages together will enable you to buy a good quality, safe and authentic weapon.

This page is also a useful info source for anyone researching authentic period swords.

Sword Typologies

Typologies tell you what weapons were authentic. They're useful!

In the future we hope to produce our own page on sword typology. But not today

Links

Here are links to good online typologies

• Petersen's Typology is the original typology of viking swords.
• Oakeshott's Typology is a largely post-period typology for medieval swords.
• Wiglaf's Weapon Widget has Petersen & Oakeshott's typologies plus details of lots of individual swords.