Hunting Sword

Although swords had often been worn as a side arm while hunting big game it was not until the fourteenth century that swords specially designed for hunting started to appear. The blades of single edged hunting swords often had a saw-tooth pattern on the back edge for cutting undergrowth or sectioning game. By the late fifteenth century other skinning tools were often included in a single sheath much like the modern Kukri. By the fourteenth century Great hunting swords were used to hunt large game such as wild boar and deer. These were strong enough to withstand the charge of the animal and developed further over the next century becoming stronger and heavier and finally gaining a spearlike point and a crossbar to prevent the animal charging up the weapon while impaled.
How to cite this article: Dugdale-Pointon, TDP. (28 July 2001), Hunting Sword, http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_huntingsword.html

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