The term broadsword is used to refer to different types of swords, depending on when the term is used, and on what period is being talked about. Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century A sword (from Old English sweord; akin to Old High German swerd lit. ...
during the 17th through 19th centuries, the term referred to contemporary European straight double-edged basket-hilted swords. Like the Italianschiavona and the Scotsclaymore (a troublesome term in itself), Surviving examples of such swords are around 105 cm long (90 cm of which is blade) with a base blade width of 3.5 cm and a weight of about one kilogram.
From the late 19th century, however, museum curators began to use the term to refer to the medievalknightly sword, to distiguish them from the comparatively slimmer-bladed rapier, smallsword and épée, and it is in this manner that the term is used most often today.
The ChineseDao is sometimes translated as broadsword, although sabre is the more usual translation.
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The sword always served more as a weapon of self-defence than for use on the battlefield, and the military importance of swords steadily decreased during the Middle Ages.
The sword consists of the blade and the hilt.
Swords form a suit in the Tarot deck (replaced by spades in modern cards), and often function as symbols of masculinity and particularly of the phallus.
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