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Viking Seax - The Shadow of the Gods John Gwynne
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A seax knife for Bondi, an upcoming viking class in PVK2.
The Viking seax is a very large fighting knife which most warriors would have carried. We stock a large selection of different style knives used for war and utility.
This is a short slideshow of the sheath-making process I demonstrated at the 'Oakland Axe 'n Seax in' in Oakland California. The sheath design is based on one found at York in northern England. The knife is an Anglo Saxon broken-back seax constructed from six bars, the decorative spine is two twisted bars framed in
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Full: Front Iron seax, with a straight cutting edge and sharply angled back, the tang offset from the blade. One face of the blade was inset with eight decorative panels, but two are now missing. They are separated from each other by short, vertical strips of twisted silver and copper wire. The panels are inlaid with silver and niello, except for one, which is inlaid with brass. The triangular panel at the angle of the back contains a winged creature, the wing terminating in an acanthus leaf, and the body decorated with double nicks. Next to it is an oblong field with a symmetrical acanthus plant. The panels to the right of this are arranged in two rows of three narrow rectangular fields, but only one survives in the top row. It contains an undulating foliate scroll. The first panel of the second row is inscribed in Old English; the second, inlaid with brass. The last field is very worn, and contains an S-shaped animal, its body pierced by a strand. The panels are set above a long narrow strip with pendent silver triangles, which runs along the centre of the blade. It is composed of alternate rectangular panels of silver and brass, bordered by lengths of twisted copper and silver wire. The other face of the blade has a similar median strip, but here the rectangular panels are far more regular, creating a chequered effect. A second strip, also bordered by twisted polychrome wires, runs along the back of the blade. It is linked to the one below by two short lengths of twisted silver and copper wire. The panel thus created contains another Old English inscription, in letters of silver wire facing the back of the blade. The spine of the blade was also inlaid with twisted silver and copper wires, alternate silver and brass rectangular panels, and a triangular terminal of silver and copper wires at the angle of the blade. Much of this decoration is now missing.
The seax collection perfectly reflects designer Jean-Marie Massaud´s meticulous attention to detail and thoughtful approach to materials, textures and colors.
Hand filing a fuller into the seax knife
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This Anglo Saxon broken back seax is a collaboration piece between myself and the Czech bladesmith Petr Florianek. I love doing collaborative pieces with Petr his imaginative historic carving brings out the best in my blades. I made the 13 3/4 inch blade, which is a 4 bar construction with wrought iron at the spine […]
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Handmade viking broken back seax, that I made from hight carbon steel, guard and pommel is "sandwich" type, made from 3 base parts (steel-brass-steel) e... Viking Seax
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HJÖRTUR, Viking seax knife, damask
