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Originally posted by larcheveque:
"I find the glaive to look very interesting myself." Me too i like it but do you think it's a good choice for a Swiss soldier? I'm also interested by this lance:
http://www.armabohemia.cz/imgnew/epees/reste/LanceC.jpg
Hi larcheveque,
Actually, I don't think the glaive is a good choice for a Swiss soldier, it is more typically Burgundian and French, and to a lesser extent English. I like pollaxes, but I carry a bec de corbin as that is more typically Burgundian - we reenactors have to be careful to try to reflect what we are supposed to be portraying in the field, rather than having things for the mere coolness factor! 
The halberd is distinctly Swiss from the 1300's- 1470 or so, to the point when Louis XI late in in reign introduces halberd armed infantry to France, they are looked at as a novelty, and they are refered to being 'armed in the German fashion'.
The halberd they have on their site is a very nice one, and you can see from the various close-up photos of other socketed heads they make their sockets properly. It would be a good choice, I think.
Regarding the lance head, if you are looking to make a pike out of it, I think you need a head with the langets (the metal strips on either side, running down from the socket along the haft of the weapon), because that looks like a lance head rather than a pike head.
This one has the langets http://www.armabohemia.cz/imgnew/epees/reste/lance1v.jpg
as does this one http://www.armabohemia.cz/imgnew/epees/reste/LanceA.jpg
That is assuming you want to use it for a pike - the others look like they belong on lances, to me. Since the lance was discarded after first contact, and often broke, the langets wern't a concern like they were on a weapon you weren't supposed to discard, like a pike.
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posted 06-10-2005 09:24 AM
