- An
atgeir,
sometimes called a "mail-piercer" or "hewing-spear", was a type of
polearm in use in
Viking Age
Scandinavia and
Norse colonies in the British...
- has an
atgeir which he had made by seething-spells; and this is what the
spells say, that no
weapon shall give him his death-blow save that
atgeir. That...
- translations, or the
original texts. Many of
these terms are
shown below. The
atgeir was a type of bill or halberd, from Old
Norse geirr, "spear". The atgeirr...
-
rather than a
cutting weapon, such as the
hewing spear (höggspjót) and the
atgeir.
While clearly identifiable artistic or
archaeological evidence of the form...
- was a
skilled archer, and in
close combat his
weapon of
choice was the
atgeir,
which scholars consider to have been a
halberd or
glaive of some sort....
-
inlaid patterns. A
polearm known as the
atgeir is
mentioned in
several sagas of
Icelanders and
other literature.
Atgeir is
usually translated as "halberd"...
- many
halberds were sent to
Iceland by
Royal edict. The halberd,
known as
atgeir or
arngeir in Icelandic,
became a
signature weapon of
Icelandic farmers...
- weapons. Ahlspiess, awl pike (European)
Aklys (Osci
tribe of
Southern Italy)
Atgeir (European) Boar
spear (European) Brandistock,
feather staff, buttafuore...
-
range of
medieval Scandinavian weapons as
described in sagas, such as the
atgeir. As well, all
polearms developed from
three early tools (the axe, the scythe...
-
Berserker Great Heathen Army
Hersir Hird
Viking Age arms and
armour Halberd Atgeir Skeggöx Dane axe
Sword Ulfberht Ingelrii Ring
Fortress Raid
Warfare and...
