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Surprised there is no specific mention of the misericorde (a long, narrow dagger that could get between the gaps in armor plates or the holes in visors): https
by Wingman4l7 6y ago
Surprised there is no specific mention of the misericorde (a long, narrow dagger that could get between the gaps in armor plates or the holes in visors): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericorde_(weapon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericorde_(weapon)
- magicsmoke 6y agoThat's an expensive non-food-producing piece of metal for an average medieval peasant to have lying around. Much more likely for your average knight to have one though, and as the link says it was used by Polish nobility.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoIt also seems to have been primarily used to kill people who weren’t fighting back due to serious but not instantly fatal injury.