CAS Iberia Legacy Arms Witham Viking Seax 12" 5160 Steel Blade, Leather Wrapped Handle, Leather Wrapped Scabbard - SL7041

Description

CISL7041: Witham Viking Seax

Legacy Arms

This updated version of a Viking Seax by Legacy Arms is based on a 10th-century style and features refinements like a reduced diameter in leather handle for an easier grip. The 5.5mm thick, 12" blade is just a beast as ever and cuts just a clean. The tang is peened over the top of the metal end cap of the handle. A stitched leather brown scabbard with a belt hanger is included.

History of the Seax Knife

A scramseax (also seax) was a type of Germanic single-edged knife. Scramseax seem to have been used for warfare and as a tool. They occur in a size range from 2.9" to 29.5". The larger ones (langseax) were probably weapons, while the smaller ones (hadseax) were tools, intermediate-sized ones serving a dual purpose. Wearing a scramseax may have been indicative of freemanship. The scramseax was worn in a horizontal sheath at the front of the belt. Scram refers to food and seax to a blade (so, "food knife"). There is some debate about the authenticity of the longer word scramseax. The Saxons may have derived their name from seax (the implement for which they were known) in much the same way that the Franks were named for their Francisca. This claim is largely supported by the appearance of scramaseaxes in early Saxon heraldry.