Germanic weapons

thumb|upright|Merovingian seaxes

thumb|300px|Different types of francisca heads thumb|Francisca with shaft

Viking axe

thumb|Reenactor with angon The angon (Medieval Greek , Old High German ango, Old English anga "hook, point, spike") is a type of javelin that was used during the Early Middle Ages by the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Goths, and other Germanic peoples. It was similar to, and probably derived from, the pilum used by the Roman army and had a barbed head and long narrow socket or shank made of iron mounted on a wooden haft.

10th century Anglo-Saxon seax

type of axe

cold weapon

thumb|right|Gunnar Hámundarson defends his house with an atgeir in [[Njáls saga.]] An atgeir was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. The word atgeirr is older than the Viking Age, and cognates can be found in Old English and other Germanic dialects (atiger, setgare, aizger), deriving from the Germanic root gar, and is related to the Old Norse geirr, meaning spear.

Late Iron Age and Early Medieval type of sword