Dumb question, but are all the two-handed swords in the picture different types of swords? I'm guessing the second-last is a zweihänder (but only because I saw a sword like that on Wikipedia once; like I said, me not know swords) and the last sword is a flamberge, but are the other swords unique types too?
Dumb question, but are all the two-handed swords in the picture different types of swords? I'm guessing the second-last is a zweihänder (but only because I saw a sword like that on Wikipedia once; like I said, me not know swords) and the last sword is a flamberge, but are the other swords unique types too?
the third is also a zweihander. It's just a different variant with a different guard. The second one on the ground is a longsword of some kind.
Dumb question, but are all the two-handed swords in the picture different types of swords? I'm guessing the second-last is a zweihänder (but only because I saw a sword like that on Wikipedia once; like I said, me not know swords) and the last sword is a flamberge, but are the other swords unique types too?
AKSHUALLY these are all zweihanders. The earliest examples were basically just extralongswords, but as time went on they acquired the attributes (parry hooks, a leather-wrapped ricasso, large side rings) that now distinguish zweihanders from other longswords. By the way, "flamberge" as a type of sword doesn't really exist. The term was originally just a word for sword used in medieval fiction, but evolved into a derogatory term for the flamboyant swords associated with people who read way too much of that stuff. In reality "flame-bladed" swords came in both two-handed and one-handed varieties.
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