It’s too encrusted for me to tell, but in modern times we’ve ended up classifying western medieval swords by their “Oakeshott Type”. The issue is that most swor

It’s too encrusted for me to tell, but in modern times we’ve ended up classifying western medieval swords by their “Oakeshott Type”. The issue is that most sword names are relatively new; for most of history swords have just been called swords, with various sub-names only cropping up where two major types of sword overlap, and even then not always. So we’ve created a modern classification system to make talking about these things possible. For example, the famous late medieval long sword, which I trained with years ago, was typically just called a two handed sword in most languages; the term “long sword” really only crops up after it fell out of favor. This is particularly problematic because “Zweihander” (two hander) was the historically correct name for a very different sword. https://www.albion-swords.com/articles/oakeshott-typology.htm https://www.albion-swords.com/articles/oakeshott-typology.ht...