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📅 Updated:2025-09-07
🕒 Created:2024-03-30
🆔 ID:58457
Description
A swordstaff (svärdstav) is a Scandinavian cutting and piercing polearm consisting of a long shaft, a crossguard, and a double-edged sword blade. It gives off the appearance of a sword attached on top of a pole. Similar Weapons
- In China similar weapon equivalents exist called the pi (鈹) and the sha (鎩) with the latter possessing a bat wing-like hilt and have the blade sheathed with a scabbard when not in use.
- In fantasy swordstaves often takes the form of a literal magic staff with a sword blade on one end and a staff head on the other. Other times it's a broadsword or even a greatsword as a polearm.
See Also
External Link
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordstaff