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Cold Steel Two-Handed Great Sword – Man at Arms Collection

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Many associate the Renaissance as being a period in which swords became lighter and rapier-like and that it is evidence of skill and swordplay evolving from brutish hacking of earlier centuries. This is barely half-true. In the Renaissance civilian swords did become thinner and focused on thrusting, but the 16th Century Renaissance battlefield was an entirely different affair. The battlefields of the Italian city states and German principalities could be characterized as a mass shoving affair between tightly packed formations of men-at-arms with pikes and halberds – it was a rebirth of the Greek Phalanx.

Unlike civilian swords which became better suited for close-quarters duels, the martial swords of the Renaissance were largely a further development of more familiar medieval forms into blades intended to defeat armor and fight around and within mass infantry formations. There are too many specialties to go into detail with here, but among the most fascinating development was among the two-handed swords.

They varied in size from up-scale ring-hilt bastard swords to massive wave-bladed weapons as tall as the man wielding it. They appear wholly unwieldy, but in skilled hands they were more agile and utilitarian than they appear. Massively powerful sweeping cuts can be made, and much of the additional protective rings and blunted, thick ricasso above the guard is made to facilitate a choked up grip. In closer quarters the skilled wielder would use the blade in sweeps to deflect weapons and could stab, chop and even pound at the foe with the guard quillons and pommel at point-blank range with the choked-up grip. The extensive guard is designed to not only protect the hand, but to even momentarily entrap an enemy weapon, leaving him open for the strike. Though brutishly powerful, there were schools of technique for the use of the two-handed sword and a skilled user could be surprisingly dextrous in the use of these grand swords.

These two handed swords had a special place in large-scale battles; they were used to disrupt the formations of pikemen. Moving ahead of their own formation, they would strike at the pikes, knocking the long unwieldy weapons aside and even in some instances breaking off the pike tips to create gaps for their own pikemen to exploit. Among the famed German mercenary landesknechts, these two-handed swordsmen were called Doppelsdner. Literally meaning Double-Soldier these men were paid double what their pike-brethren were paid for undertaking the dangerous job of challenging a hedgehog wall of pikes with his sword.

This Cold Steel Two-Handed Great Sword is from their Man-At-Arms collection. The sharp 1055 High carbon steel blade is blued for a dark, protective finish and the hilt of steel is blued to match. The blade ricasso is wrapped in leather. The grip is overlaid with black leather and the blade tang is screwed into place with a pommel nut.

Overall Length55 1/2''
Blade Length39 7/8''
Weight7 lb 3.3 oz
EdgeSharp
Width154 mm - 45.4 mm
Thickness7 mm - 5.4 mm
PommelNut
P.O.B.6''
Grip Length13''
Blade [1055 High Carbon Steel]
TypeGreatsword
ClassBattle Ready
ManufacturerCold Steel
Country of OriginIndia

2 reviews for Cold Steel Two-Handed Great Sword – Man at Arms Collection

  1. Kirad

    Don’t buy it This “sword” is extremely heavy and it has a very poor construction, stay away from this abomination

  2. Lance Shaban

    extremely disappointing this sword is completely useless, the edge is barely sharp, and when i tried to cut a .5″ (about 8mm) tree branch (yes, i know youre not supposed to do that with a sword, but anyone who’s seen the video on youtube of this sword being used knows this sword was advertised as almost indestructible) the nut that holds the whole thing together popped out and the whole thing fell apart, i tried to put the nut back on but the threads on the nut were so heavily damaged that it wouldnt even screw on anymore, this thing can barely be called a greatsword as well (i’m 5′ 5″) and this thing doesnt even come up to my chin, its also ungodly heavy, the only thing this sword is useful for is strength training for better swords, in the end i had to drill part of the pommel out to fit a socket wrench into the hole where the nut used to be and replace the nut with my own screw. all in all, dont buy it, this thing is a complete load of garbage, hands down

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