german bollock dagger 15th century Viking oorbellen The wooden sword is based

The wooden sword is based on two-handed swords from the 12th to 15th centuries

The original is still depicted on a wall in the Roman city of Pompeii

3 mm thick

ensuring the balls cannot strike your own hands

The bronze-plated end caps are shaped like weasel heads

german bollock dagger 15th century Viking oorbellen The wooden sword is basedThis beautiful late medieval dagger is based on an original early 15th c. piece from Germany. This particular type of dagger, known as bollock dagger, ballock dagger or kidney dagger, owes its quite peculiar name to the characteristic shape of its hilt that terminates at the guard with two distinctive spherical egg shapes lobes or bulges. This reproduction features a single edged, unsharpened steel blade that tapers evenly from the guard to an acute