#Medieval Daggers

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Honshu Crusader Quillon Dagger with Sheath

The Honshu Crusader Quillon Dagger is a modernized reimagining of the classic Medieval knightly dagger which melds traditional design with modern materials. The stiff blade thrusts and cuts with great ability in close quarters and the molded grip of hardened thermoplastic rubber gives a sure handhold. The sheath for the dagger is made from thick and tough faux leather with a stitched and riveted construction and completed with a buttoned retaining strap and an integrated belt loop.

Please Note: The retaining strap at first may be difficult to button. It is intentionally made tight because it is expected for the leather to stretch as it settles in for a more long-lasting secure grip on the sword. You may need to stretch the leather to get it to button for the first time and it may then be a good idea to let the leather stretch and settle into its new form.

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World's Most Captivating Daggers

World's Most Captivating Daggers. Visit: https://noblie.eu/types-of-daggers/

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Model Credit (last photo): Chase Kingsford

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It’s dangerous to go alone, take this

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Writing Weapons (2): Knives and Daggers

Dagger vs. Sword

In many situations, daggers might be more plausible than a sword fight.

Dagger are eaiser to carry and conceal, lighter, faster, good for spontaneous action, suicide bids, self-defense and assassination.

Dagger vs. Knife

No clear distinction; terms used interchangeably

Dagger is more for thrusting with 2 sharp edges

Knife is more for cutting (slashing) with 1 sharp edge

Concealment

Carried in a leather sheath on the belt

Can be concealed under a cloak, in a bodice (sheath sewn into the bodice), in a boot, behind hari ornaments

Bodice daggers (popular in the Renaissance) had no cross guards.

Connotations

Beside its combat value, the dagger has lots of emotional and sexual symbolisms.

The closeness need to attack with a dagger creates intense personal connection. They are often used in fights where emotions are running high: gang warfare, hate crime, vengeance.

Due to its shape and the fact that it's usually worn on a belt made it a symbol of virility in many cultures and periods.

Sometimes it was the hilt rather than the blade: like in the case of bollocks daggers with two...balls on either side of the hilt.

Fighting Techniques

Stabbing:-

The dagger with long, thin blades are made to stab a vital organ like the kidneys, liver, bowel, stomach or heart.

Stabbing directly at the chest seldom works, since the blde may glance off the ribs. Position the dagger below the ribcage and drive it upwards, through the diaphragm and into the lungs. If the sword is long enough and your fighter is a professional, you can get to the heart.

If no professional, just keep going for the stomach and you'll get one of the vital organs eventually.

Slashing:-

When describing a slash wound, show a lot of blood streaming, or even spurting.

Slashing dagger fights are bloody - show your MC's hands getting slick with blood, grip on the weapon slipping.

The aim is to cut the opponent's throat or cut tendoms, muscles, or ligaments to disable. Slashing the muscles in the weapon-wielding arm is the most effective; insides of the writst or back of the knee is also critical.

Assassinations:-

Show good knowledge of the humna antatomy

Use a stabbing dagger

A single, determined, calculated and efficient stroke, probably below the ribs.

Self-Defense:-

Disable the attacker by slashing their weapon-wielding hand (elbow or wrist)

Quick, multiple stabs wherever the MC can get the blade to land; the attacker won't give time for careful positioning

If the blade is too short to do any significant damage, maek up for this by stabbing so ast that the pain and blood loss distracts the opponent.

Vegeance and Hatred:-

Someone who is motivated by raging emotions will stab the victim repeatedly, even after he is already dead.

The attacker may stab or salsh the victim's face, disfiguring it.

Contemporary street fights and gang warfare usually involves these.

Duels:-

If both fighters are armed with daggers, include wrestling-type moves as they try to restrict each other's weapon hand.

Show them trying to disable each other by slashing insides of writes, elbows, the back of the knees, etc.

Dagger + Sword

If the character is expecting a fight, they can hold a sword in their right hand, and a dagger in their left to fight with both

Sword + mace combination also common.

Blunders to Avoid:

Direct stabbing at the chest wouldn't work.

Hero cannot cut his bread with a stabbing sword

adapted from <Writer's Craft> by Rayne Hall

[fab-bladesmith]

A Ballock Dagger, XVth century.

Inspired by various models popular in the northern parts of the powerful Burgundian states.

Blade is high carbon steel, with an elegant hollow grind and decorative false edge. Grip is cherry wood, with brass plate and end. Carved and tooled vegetable tanned leather scabbard, and mild steel chape.

As always, everything is hand made.

There is an obvious anatomical analogy in the shape of these daggers, probably associated to some symbolism and nonverbal forms of communication that elude us, but which certainly explains their popularity from the XIVth century onwards.

[armthearmour]

A large dagger with a crystaline hilt and a set of by-knives, Burgundian or German, made ca. 1490, rehilted ca. 1550, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmusuem, Vienna.

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Tod Cutler – 14th Century Bronze Hilted Rondel Dagger

This stunning 14th Century bronze hilted medieval rondel dagger is based on a museum example; the hilt is cast fine bronze and is fitted to a very strong and stiff single edged blade of tempered high carbon steel. Suitable for a knight or man at arms, this dagger is not only suitably fashionable for a personage of status, but its long and rigid blade is quite deadly and well capable of powerful, penetrative thrusts through thick clothing or the weakpoints of an armored harness. The single edge blade allows for it to have a very thick spine which imparts excellent rigidity to the blade, ensuring no loss of energy and power in the strike.

The dagger is paired with a high quality sheath of vegetable tanned leather which is completed with a detailed cast bronze chape.

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Sir Lancelot in the Chapel Perilous by Walter Crane

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“I am afraid of you. In loving me, you hold a knife to my throat. In loving you, I tell you exactly where to cut. We are two against the world, yet I still do not trust your hand in mine. This is new, and I am terrified.” -vulnerability a.j.

Taking some time away from the shop this week to spend with family and go through photos from 2023.

This is one of my favorite shots taken by the very talented @liv.ing_lively at this years faire.

Thank you to all of those who helped us create such wonderful memories, and here's to many more to come. ❤️

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Have I shown off my incredibly appropriate knife yet? Why yes, yes I am Merie.

Bought from the Tod Cutler store, inspired by 13th-16thC knives with wording from 14thC. Which means Ash could be gifted one to remind him to stop being such a grumpy bastard ❤️

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