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• The Battle of Stamford Bridge

  The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought on 25 September 1066 near York between the English army of King Harold Godwinson and a Norwegian… Continued…

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  Battle of Maldon

  The Battle of Maldon, fought in August 991 on the Blackwater estuary near Maldon in Essex, pitted Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex, and the… Continued…

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  Dane Axe

  The Dane axe is the great two-handed axe of the Viking Age and its aftermath: a thin, broad, crescent-edged head on a haft about a meter… Continued…

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  Ulfberht Sword

  The Ulfberht swords are a group of about 170 early medieval sword blades inscribed with the name +VLFBERH+T, made between the ninth and… Continued…

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  Gjermundbu Helmet

  The Gjermundbu helmet is the only nearly complete helmet known from the Viking Age. It was found in 1943 in a tenth-century burial mound on… Continued…

• Jomsvikings

  The Jomsvikings were a band of Viking warriors said to have lived by strict laws in a fortress called Jomsborg on the southern Baltic coast… Continued…

• Varangian Guard

  The Varangian Guard was the Byzantine emperor's household regiment of Scandinavians, Rus and later Englishmen, raised in the reign of Basil… Continued…

• Vikings

  The Vikings were seaborne raiders, traders and settlers from Scandinavia whose expansion, from the raid on Lindisfarne in 793 to the Battle… Continued…

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  Viking Spear

  The spear was the most common weapon of the Viking Age, carried by farmers and kings alike. It had an iron head, socketed onto an ash shaft… Continued…

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  Viking Round Shield

  The round shield was the main defense of the Viking warrior: a disc of wooden boards, usually about 80 to 95 centimeters across, with an… Continued…

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  Seax

  The seax is the single-edged knife of the early medieval Germanic peoples, carried from the fifth to the eleventh century by Franks… Continued…

• Roman Spatha

  The spatha was the long, straight, double-edged sword of the Roman Empire. First carried by auxiliary cavalry in the first century AD… Continued…

• Arming Sword

  The arming sword was the one-handed, double-edged sword of the medieval knight, carried from the eleventh to the fifteenth century with a… Continued…

• Copper Age Axe

  The copper axe was the first metal weapon and tool of prehistoric Europe, made in the Copper Age of the fourth and early third millennia… Continued…

• Byzantine Spathion

  The spathion was the straight, double-edged long sword of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, army — the direct descendant of the late Roman… Continued…

• Frankish Francisca

  The francisca is the throwing axe of the early Franks, the Germanic people who overran Roman Gaul in the fifth century and gave France its… Continued…

• Norman Kite Shield

  The kite shield is the long, round-topped, tapering shield carried by the Norman knights of the Bayeux Tapestry and by armored horsemen… Continued…

• Medieval Mace

  The mace is concentrated impact: a weighted head of iron or bronze on a stout haft, built to transmit force THROUGH armor rather than cut… Continued…

• Halberd

  The halberd combined axe blade, thrusting spike, and back hook on a two-meter haft — a complete toolkit for infantry facing armored… Continued…

• Viking & Norse Arms & WeaponsFor sale

  The Vikings were master weapons craftsmen whose axes, swords, and ships enabled raids and settlement from North America to Constantinople … Continued…

• Danish Arms & Weapons

  Denmark's weapon tradition spans Viking-age axes and swords through medieval crusading orders, early gunpowder adoption, and Scandinavian… Continued…

• Norwegian Arms & Weapons

  Norway's weapons history is defined by its Viking heritage — the broad-bladed axe, the round shield, and the remarkable ulfberht sword … Continued…

• Medieval Era

  The Medieval Era saw the rise of the armored knight and the refinement of edged weapons, armor, and siege engineering to their historical… Continued…

• Viking Age

  The Viking Age (793–1066) produced some of the finest swords of the early medieval world, along with distinctive axes, spears, and round… Continued…

• Iron Age

  The Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE–550 CE) saw iron progressively replace bronze as the metal of choice for weapons — initially inferior to good… Continued…

• Axes

  The axe is one of humanity's oldest tool-weapons — a heavy blade mounted transversely on a haft to concentrate cutting force. From… Continued…

• Shields

  The shield is the oldest and most universal armor form — a handheld or body-mounted barrier interposed between the user and incoming… Continued…

• Short Swords

  Short swords — bladed weapons of 30–60 cm — were the standard close-quarters weapon of ancient infantry, most famously the Roman gladius… Continued…