The claim that viking swords can be called ‘longswords’ comes from Dungeons & Dragons (!) − is in every way dubious − and can be deleted! Dubious claims can removed − or require citations. Unsourced dubious claims can be freely deleted. The fact is, Old Norse texts never refer to the viking sword (sverð) as a ‘longsword’. 'Longsword' in other contexts has been used to refer to Bronze Age swords, Migration period and Viking swords as well as the early modern dueling sword.Īmong the many mistakes in the above paragraph is the claim that the viking sword is a called a longsword. I deleted the following paragraph, because the wildly nonhistorical Dungeons & Dragons game doesnt count as an academic ‘context’. It is false to call a viking sword a ‘longsword’
4 Were These Used Widely in The Hundred Years War?.3 This claim is wrong, or at least dubious and requires citation.1 It is false to call a viking sword a ‘longsword’.
