Modern production. This is a currently made piece in the tradition of the original; the history below is about the original.
The battle axe was the most distinctively Norse weapon of the Viking Age. From the one-handed bearded axe that doubled as a farm tool to the great two-handed Dane axe whose thin crescent blade could shear through shield and helmet, it was cheap to make, brutally effective, and carried by everyone from farmer-raiders to the huscarls of kings. Contemporary chroniclers from England to Byzantium remembered the Northmen by this weapon above all others, and surviving heads from graves and river finds number in the thousands.
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