two-handed sword
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The Zweihänder (, literally "two-hander"), also Doppelhänder ("double-hander"), Beidhänder ("both-hander"), Bihänder, or Bidenhänder, is a large two-handed sword that was used primarily during the 16th century.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Zweihänder
- Weapon.image
- Zweihaender im historischen Museum Basel.JPG
- Weapon.caption
- Zweihänders with and without Parierhaken
- Weapon.type
- Two-handed sword
- Weapon.service
- ~1500–1600
- Weapon.length
- up to
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.is_ranged
- ncc'm :-
- Weapon.is_bladed
- yes
- Weapon.production_date
- ~1500–present
- Weapon.blade_type
- Double-edged, straight bladed
- Weapon.hilt_type
- Two-handed cruciform, with pommel
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The Zweihänder (, literally "two-hander"), also Doppelhänder ("double-hander"), Beidhänder ("both-hander"), Bihänder, or Bidenhänder, is a large two-handed sword that was used primarily during the 16th century.
Zweihänder swords developed from the longswords of the Late Middle Ages and became the hallmark weapon of the German Landsknechte from the time of Maximilian I (d. 1519) and during the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The Goliath Fechtbuch (1510) shows an intermediate form between longsword and Zweihänder.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “two-handed sword” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.