- century,
variants on the
Danish axe are seen.
Described in
English as a
sparth (from the Old
Norse sparðr) or pale-axe, the
weapon featured a
larger head...
- weapon,
especially if
combined with the
lengthened blade, was
called a
sparth in England. Some
believe this
weapon is the
ancestor of the halberd. While...
- 14th to 17th
centuries in Europe.
Ultimately a
descendant of the
medieval sparth axe or Dane axe, the
bardiche proper appears around 1400, but
there are...
- (1 ft) to
upwards of 150 cm (5 ft), as in the case of the
Danish axe or the
sparth axe.
Cleaving weapons longer than 150 cm (5 ft)
would arguably fall into...
- and
guisarme (Such as in Chaucer's
Romaunt of the Rose: "With swerd, or
sparth (axe) or gysarme" and Mandeville's Travels: "with
swerds drawen and gysarmez...
-
coming into the area. They were
noted for
wielding the m****ive two-handed
sparth axe (a
custom noted by
Geraldus Cambrensis, died c. 1223, to have derived...
- Hill P****monds
Prickshaw Rooley Moor
Shawclough Smallbridge Smithy Bridge Sparth Bottom Spotland Sudden Syke
Thornham Turf Hill
Wardleworth Like much of...
- In
August 2022,
Nicolas '
Sparth'
Bouvier announced that he had
joined Team
Kaiju as the
Senior Art Director.
Previously Sparth had been with the Halo franchise...
-
stepped down from his role in
January 2014. He was
succeeded by
Nicolas "
Sparth" Bouvier, a
concept artist who
joined Microsoft in 2009.
Bouvier described...
- Haltwhistle, Northumberland,
until they were
auctioned in 2004. One
suite at
Sparth House Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors,
Lancashire has the
furniture from one of...
