This is a list of sword types found through history all around the world. A sword (from Old English sweord; akin to Old High German swerd lit. ...

Sword types sorted by countries of origin

African

• Flyssa
• Kaskara
• Shotel
• Takouba

World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ...

Ancient

• Kopis
• Khopesh
• Makhaira (μάχαιρα)
• Xiphos (ξίφος)

For the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000-5,500 years ago, see Ancient history. ... An illustration showing a kopis with a hook-like hilt. ... A khopesh is the name given by the ancient Egyptians to a Cannanite sickle-sword. ... The makhaira (μάχαιρα, also transliterated machaira) is an ancient Greek word that refers to a class of large metal cutting instruments. ... The xiphos (ξίφος) is an double-edged, single-hand sword used by the ancient Greeks. ...

China

• Butterfly sword
• Dao (刀 pinyin dāo)
• Jian (劍 pinyin jiàn)

The butterfly sword is originally a single-bladed short weapon originating from southern China, although it has also been used in the northern parts during its history. ... Chinese Saber Dao 刀 (Py dāo, Wade-Giles tao1) is a category of single-edge Chinese swords primarily used for slashing and chopping (sabers), often called broadswords in English because some varieties have wide blades. ... Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... Jian (劍 Pinyin jiàn, Wade-Giles chien4, Cantonese gim, Korean geom, Japanese ken) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. ... Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the...

Europe

• Bastard-sword
• Cinquedea
• Cutlass
• Dirk
• Espada Ropera
• Estoc
• Falchion
• Flamberge
• Gladius
• Grossemesser
• Hand-and-a-half Sword
• Kriegsmesser
• Long-sword
• Rapier
• Sabre
• Scramasax
• Smallsword
• Spatha
• Two-handed swords
  • Árije
  • Claymore
  • Great Sword
  • Spadone
  • Zweihänder

A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the sword. ... Dirk is a Scots word for a long dagger; sometimes a cut-down sword blade mounted on a dagger handle, rather than a knife blade. ... The espada ropera (sword of the robe) was a sword developed in the mid-15th century in Spain. ... An estoc is a type of sword common in the 16th century. ... A falchion is a medieval single handed, one edged sword of European origin. ... A flamberge A flamberge is a sword (typically a rapier though there were longswords as well) which had a wavy blade meant to aid in parrying. ... From left to right: Mainz, Fulham, Pompeii, and Pompeii Gladii. ... A bastard-sword is commonly thought a generic name for several varieties of straight-bladed European swords that can be wielded in one or two hands. ... The term long-sword is ahistoric in the sense that it refers to a different kind of sword depending on historical context. ... This article is about the sword. ... Cavalry sabre typical of the 19th Century The sabre (or saber) is a European backsword with a distinct curvature and a rather large hand guard, covering the knuckles of the hand as well as the thumb and forefinger. ... King or Chief of Franks armed with the Scramasax, from a Miniature of the Ninth Century, drawn by H. de Vielcastel. ... The Smallsword is a sword intermediate in historical period between the rapier and the classical épée, ancestor to the modern sporting épée. ... The Spatha is a straight, slashing sword, usually worn by cavalry officers and auxiliaries in later Roman armies. ... A two-handed sword, used as a general term, is any large sword that requires two hands to use. ... The word claymore has been used to describe two distinct types of swords used by Scottish warriors and soldiers. ... Great sword - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The spadone is a two-handed sword used by knights during Medieval times. ... The Zweihänder (German for two hander) is a massive two-handed sword, designed to capitalize on brute force and shock effect, at the expense of some finesse. ...

Japan

• Bokken (木剣)
• Katana (刀; かたな)
• Ken
• Kodachi (小太刀)
• Nagamaki
• Nodachi (野太刀)
• Shinai (竹刀)
• Tachi (太刀; たち)
• Tantō (短刀; たんとう)
• Wakizashi (脇差; わきざし)

Bokken bokken training A Bokken (木剣, bo, wood, and ken, sabre) is a wooden Japanese sabre, usually the size of a katana (though wakisashi and tanto-sized are available). ... The katana (刀) is the Japanese sabre or longsword (大刀 daitō), although many Japanese use this word generically as a catch-all word for sword. ... Ken is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ken was a rare type of tanto. ... A kodachi (小太刀) literally translates into small or short tachi; this Japanese sword was too short to be considered a long sword but too long to be a dagger. ... A nagamaki (long wrapping) was a Japanese weapon popular between the 12th and 14th centuries. ... The nodachi (野太刀) refers to a large Japanese sword. ... A shinai (Japanese:竹刀) is a practice sword used in Kendo. ... The tachi (太刀) is a Japanese sword, often said to be more curved and slightly longer than the katana. ... A Tantō (短刀) is a Japanese blade or small sword. ... Wakizashi style sword mounting, Edo period, 19th century A wakizashi (Japanese: 脇差) is a traditional Japanese sword with a shoto blade between 12 and 24 inches (between 30 and 60 cm, with an average of 50 cm), similar to but shorter than a katana but also quite longer than the...

Philippines

• Barong
• Talibon

Barong can refer to any of the following things: A Barong Tagalog is an embroidered formal garment of the Philippines. ...

Middle East

• Katar
• Kilij
• Kindjal
• Saif
• Scimitar
• Shamshir
• Shashqa
• Yataghan

A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Indian 18th century katar. ... The kilij (also spelled kilic) is a sword used by the Ottoman Empire starting around the late 15th century. ... The word saif is Arabic and means sword. As such it does not in and of itself denote anything more specific than saber or back-sword in its parent land. ... A scimitar with a large blade (kilij) The term scimitar refers to a sword with a curved blade from western Asia. ... A shamshir is a curved sword of Persian origin, with a curve that is considered radical for a sword: 15 to 30 degrees from tip to tip. ... The yatagan (Turkish spelling yatağan) is a type of Turkish sword (which even became known in other countries as the Turkish sword) used from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries. ...

South Asia

• Campilan
• Parang pandit
• Pulwar
• Tulwar

Map of South Asia. ... A pulwar (also spelled pulouar) is a single handed curved sword from Afghanistan. ... A talwar or tulwar is a type of saber from Mughal India dating back to at least the 17th century. ...

South Pacific

• Kampilan
• Kris

South Pacific is a musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949. ... The Kampilan is a famous Moro long sword still in use by many filipino-muslims today. ... The kris or keris is a distinctive, asymmetrical dagger endemic to Malaysia and Indonesia. ...

Named swords

Many swords in mythology, literature and history are named by their wielders or by the person who makes them. Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system. ... Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon... History Forums - History is Happening -Discuss all historical topics, as well as current events, in an academic setting. ...

History and mythology

• Caliburn - King Arthur's sword, probably made by Merlin but certainly put by him into a stone in a churchyard to test who the rightful king is. This sword was broken in a fight with King Pellinore (according to Mallory).
• Excalibur - King Arthur's sword, given to him by the Lady of the Lake after Caliburn was broken in a fight with King Pellinore; the sword itself as well as the scabbard was magical.
• Galatine - The sword of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian legends.
• Secace - The sword of Sir Launcelot in the Arthurian legends.
• Kusanagi (Grasscutter) - A sword of equivalent importance to Japan as the Excalibur is to England
• Thul fiqar - The legendary two-tipped sword of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib
• Tizona - the sword of El Cid.
• Szczerbiec - The sword of Polish kings
• Hrunting - Unferth, associate of Beowulf
• Gram (in the Volsung Saga) or Balmung (sometimes in later traditions) - Sigurd
• Tyrfing - a cursed sword from the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes the Hervarar saga and parts of the Poetic Edda.
• Durandal - the sword that belonged to Roland, a hero of the medieval French epic "The Song of Roland", supposedly once belonged to Hector of Troy
• Joyeuse - the sword of Charlemagne (Charles the Great), the famed medieval king of the Franks and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Grus- the historical sword of Boleslaw Krzywousty (Boleslaus the Wrymouthed), medieval prince of Poland
• Caladbolg - The sword used by the hero Cuchulain in the Irish epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

This article is about the mythical sword of King Arthur. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... The word Merlin may refer to: Merlin, the wizard, associated with King Arthur. ... King Pellinore of Listinoise is a minor character in Arthurian legend. ... In Cryptography, a name referring to a fictitious individual bent on performing malicious actions within the system. ... Excalibur is one of two mythical swords of King Arthur. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... In an Arthurian legend, the Lady of the Lake gave King Arthur the sword known as Excalibur. ... King Pellinore of Listinoise is a minor character in Arthurian legend. ... In Arthurian legend, Sir Gawain (Gawan, Gawein) features as a knight of the Round Table. ... This entry was adapted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. ... Kusanagi-no-tsurugi (草薙の剣) is a legendary Japanese sword as important to Japans history as Excalibur is to Britains. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... Also called Zulfikar, Dhu-l Fiqar, Dhu al-Fikar, Thul-fiqar etc. ... Ali ibn Abi Talib (علي بن أبي طالب) (c. ... Tizona is the sword carried by El Cid which was used to fight the Moors in Spain. ... History of Spain Series -Timeline -Prehistoric Spain -Roman Spain -Visigothic Spain -Medieval Spain -Moorish Spain -Age of Reconquest -Age of Expansion -Age of Enlightenment -Reaction and Revolution -First Spanish Republic -The Restoration -Second Spanish Republic -Spanish Civil War -The Dictatorship -Modern Spain Topics -Economic History -Military History -Social History Rodrigo... Hilt of Szczerbiec Szczerbiec (literal meaning: jagged sword) is a sword that was traditionally used in the coronation ceremony of Polish kings. ... Hrunting was the magical sword given to Beowulf by Unferth in the ancient Old English epic. ... Beowulf is the hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem by his name (see Beowulf). ... Illustration by Alan Lee In Norse mythology, Gram was the name of the sword that Sigurd (Siegfried) used to kill the dragon Fafnir. ... In Norse mythology, Gram was the name of the sword that Sigurd (Siegfried) used to kill the dragon Fafnir. ... In Norse mythology, Sigurd (also Siegfried) was a legendary hero, as well as the central character in the Volsunga saga, Nibelungenlied and Richard Wagners opera, Siegfried, which see for more details. ... Tyrfing was a sword that appears in the poem from the Elder Edda called The Waking of Angantýr, and in Hervarar saga. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The Tyrfing Cycle is a collection of legends united by the magic sword Tyrfing. ... Hervarar saga ok Heidhreks is a fornaldarsaga from the 13th century using material from an older saga. ... The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. ... Durandal (Italian Durindana) is the legendary sword of the French hero Roland (Italian Orlando). ... Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ... In Greek mythology, Hector (holding fast), or Hektor, was a Trojan prince and one of the greatest fighters in the Trojan War, equal to Ajax and surpassed only by Achilles. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy (Turkey) This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. ... A Frankish king, like Charlemagne, (center) depicted in the Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (about 870) Charlemagne (c. ... Grus (the crane) is a constellation. ... External links Map of the feudal dissolution Categories: Poland-related stubs | Polish monarchs | 1086 births | 1136 deaths ... In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the Caladbolg, hard-belly, or Caladcholg, hard-blade, was the sword of Fergus mac Róich. ... The Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. ...

Literature and popular culture

• Buster Sword - The oversized sword belonging to the videogame character Cloud Strife.
• Catclaw - The sword used by The Gray Mouser in a series of stories by Fritz Leiber.
• Dyrnwyn - The legendary sword used by Gwydion in the Prydain stories by Lloyd Alexander.
• Energy Sword - A type of sword made of pure energy manufactured by the Covenant in the video game Halo
• Glamdring (Foe-hammer) - Originally the sword of Turgon, King of Gondolin in the Silmarillion, then the sword of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.
• The Grandfather, generally considered one of the most powerful swords in the Diablo universe.
• Green Destiny Sword - The sword used by Li Mu Bai in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
• Holy Avenger - A powerful sword which only a paladin can wield in the Dungeons & Dragons based computer games Neverwinter Nights & Baldur's Gate series
• Masamune - Named after a Japanese swordsmith. Also used throughout the Final Fantasy series as well as other video games.
• Master Sword - Also known as the "Sword of Evil's Bane", this sword is generally considered a divine weapon in Nintendo's epic Legend of Zelda video game series used by Link.
• Narsil (Sun and Moon) (later Andúril, Flame of the West) - The sword of Elendil, and later Aragorn in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• Ragnarok - A powerful sword in several of the Final Fantasy video games, and a spacecraft in Final Fantasy VIII.
• Sting - The Elven short-sword wielded by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit and Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings.
• Stormbringer - The black sword used by Elric, a character invented by Michael Moorcock.
• Vorpal Sword - The sword mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Jabberwocky" and now a well-known blade in Dungeons & Dragons
• Ultima Weapon - A powerful sword in the Final Fantasy computer role-playing game series. It is sometimes referred to as the Atma Weapon, and is the damage caused by the weapon, as well as its size and appearance, is dependent upon the wielder's hit points; the more hit points the wielder has, the more effective the weapon.