Who Carried a Sword in the Middle Ages

[@Bjornvetr]

I was browsing your percussion revolver related videos, then this one popped right in front of my eyes. I'm a medieval re-enactor (1250-1280, central Italy) and I'm going to enjoy this one even more than your other videos! :)

[@tomcurran1538]

PA is going to establish a spear and sword deer season because of Mike, lol.

[@duelist1954]

LOL!

[@johnqpublic2718]

I know some guys who hunt hogs with spears here in Oklahoma - quite effectively I might add.

[@gunslingerfromwish4656]

Shhh be vewy vewy quiet. I'm slayin' me a wabbit! Edit: I just realized they switched out elmers rifle for a scythe, so this isn't as jokeful as I thought it was...

[@GaryED44]

I get the feeling that a lot of what I learned about the Middle ages in school was 75 percent incorrect

[@tomcurran1538]

Mike should go teach at his local community college. I have a MA in English with lots of British lit and I never knew most of this stuff. We did have a History prof at our CC who used to bring in his collection of edged weapons (oh, no! Not PC).

[@mkultraification]

I think you're being generous at 75%.

[@johnqpublic2718]

Where did you go to school?

[@wadel6]

Very enjoyable! Weapon demonstration is always better when you have related context.

[@fabrb26]

As a French who live surrounded by small villages with plenty of paleolithics sites , romanian ruins , old castles , bunkers and armed citadels like bitche one , maginot line etc... I always get chills just too think how much history we walk on casually not even thinking of it. I mean i love to find new sites i don't know from a random roadtrip but with YT it really helps to give the scale of how important those things are , that's what we all come from after all the past , so sad the new generations focus more on reality tv and social media's influencers that they're own past to be amaze by . As always thank you for all the video , and the diversity that come with them Mike ! Have a nice day

[@ThePaudiaz]

Excellent video. Very informative. My mom and I especially liked the monetary comparison between today and yesterday. We also liked the exposé of the different kinds of swords. Keep up the good work.

[@illiniarmory3142]

Great content. Love listening to the stories. You explain the story very well. Wish you’d tell more historical stories

[@waynehendrix4806]

Mike, I very much enjoyed this teaching time. Thank you.

[@fokkerd3red618]

Wow Mike, I had no idea your interests in history went back to this period in time. I found this history lesson very fascinating and informative. I think you would make and exceptional teacher at some University. History has always been a favorite subject of mine.

[@duelist1954]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. These Medieval videos of mine don't get watched much, so I really appreciate the feedback.

[@jamescooper2618]

I enjoyed this Mike, thanks!

[@duelist1954]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

[@stevebuckskinner5482]

Dang Mike!!! You definitely did you're homework. Great video!!

[@duelist1954]

Thanks Steve!

[@domarinolo6947]

Great video Mike , very informative, you answered questions I didn’t know I needed to ask. I really appreciate your research.

[@allentempleton2429]

Another really great video. I can't wait untill next week. Thanks Mike.

[@bobhartman2571]

Thank you. This was so very much informative.

[@_Steve_W]

Mike, I love black powder but enjoy the non-firearm content as well!

[@philstocks7859]

Very educational. Keep this type of video coming. Thanks.

[@eamonmcdermott4032]

This is brilliant stuff. Really informative. Thanks very much, Mike.

[@duelist1954]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@45auto]

Fantastic information, sir. In addition, I quite like that dagger.

[@duelist1954]

Tod makes nice stuff

[@michaelfitzell2741]

Great research, Mike, thanks. I'm a big fan of Chaucer's works.

[@duelist1954]

Me too!

[@anthonydexter262]

Another cracking video mike..... as you can see going back to the future 👍

[@MrJento]

Yes a talkie. But well reasoned and nicely presented. Worth the time to watch.

[@93FXDL]

Great video Mike!

[@duelist1954]

Thanks!

[@davidguerrero9270]

Thank you for the information! I would be interested in learning more about the Model 1860 saber if you get around to it some day.

[@duelist1954]

I'll see what I can do.

[@shawnmauney200]

Sir you are one of my top KZbin guy thanks for the knowledge keep up the good work...

[@kpex7509]

Thank you very much mike😊 love it. Have a wonderful day

[@gastonn8]

Great video! thank you Mike.

[@DaleRaby]

This was one of your better efforts. I'd like to see links to where some of your swords/daggers/buckler/etc. can be purchased. But anyway.... to quote Spicoli "Awesome, totally awesome.!" (and you didn't even need a kettle of hot coffee).

[@independentthinker8930]

Interesting and educational

[@jlthearcher]

I loved it. Keep this coming

[@35southkiwi16]

Interesting. Thanks Mike.

[@matt59736]

Great video I enjoyed it thanks.

[@jacobmarley4907]

Great video! I enjoyed the talkie-talkie! A sword through the liver...no hope!

[@michaelanderson7204]

Another great video, Mike! I think I have a 9 mm lying around that I could swap for one of those great big toad stabbers. LOL

[@tomcurran1538]

The right of the people to keep and bear swords shall not be infringed. Great historical info. I wonder if you could cover Ireland and Italy (where my relatives came from) sometime. Greetings from "Mayberry" NC.

[@DocLarsen44]

Tom Curran : I think I know you. I'm from the capital city and formerly @EPA

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

Would you be interested in a podcast/interview with Blade Talk with Scab and Joe? We are a bunch of guys and gals who support each other but more importantly we love knives and Swords, Fatwood and Bushcraft and your talk on the past couple of videos were just fantastic!

[@duelist1954]

I am camping at an 18th century event. I’ll contact you next week, if that’s ok?

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

@@duelist1954 Absolutely! I will let those guys know. If not I love your content and enjoy your event! Take care! Again great video I am planning on watching it again.

[@jbhickok7796]

These type of videos are entertaining and informative. Your great at this. Thanks Mike.

[@64samsky]

Good one Mike!

[@graypatriot1299]

Great stuff

[@aaronwalker1347]

I like the history lesson. Thanks

[@duelist1954]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

LOVE THIS CHANNEL! #22aday!

[@rjayoldenburg]

As knights and nobility became more heavily armored, axes, polearms, and maces were just more effective.

[@bh-2198]

What was that gold coin worth in Sceats? If you love Vikings, then you are going to love my current novel.

[@James-dq3jo]

Huge difference between 2years' unskilled wages (say about $40-50,000 today) and about $2-3,000. Clearly expensive, but also a fantastic illustration of the difficulty of converting prices over such a long time span.

[@tomwolf8721]

Excellent.

[@jeffshootsstuff]

FYI you refer to both the knight's longsword and the bowman's arming sword as oakeshott type 18. 26:38 28:47 Are they both accurately categorized as type 18 even though one is hand and a half and one is a shorter arming sword?

[@BogeyTheBear]

The arming sword is an Oakeshott Type XVIII. The longsword is a Type XVIIIa.

[@jdzencelowcz]

Fun fact: the shape of the seax is actually coming back, thanks to folding knife popularity, folding seax, wonder if modern Vikings, if they existed, would carry those....

[@JoeSteel1]

very interesting channel my friend...great video

[@danielkleinheksel8853]

Context of specific medieval period and geographical location is important.

[@nomadpi1]

Interesting. First time I've ever encountered someone besides myself who read The Canterbury Tales.

[@jer991]

kept me there, have been watching you on Texas Rangers. your doing great. "black powder shooting done fun". now I need a sword

[@mikesmithg0rfd356]

thank you

[@DocLarsen44]

Great stuff, Mike!

[@duelist1954]

Glad you liked it!

[@herbertsmith6416]

I enjoyed that video alot. I luv history

[@johnhickey4289]

What you have is a seax knife, a seax sword was a stabbing sword that was used in shield walls and the like, if you wish to know about medieval weapons, you should watch ‘The Last Kingdom’ or for Viking weaponry watch ‘The Vikings’ series, the producers of these series really did their homework

[@johnqpublic2718]

Ineffective leaders, mass migration, famine, crumbling “empire,” changing value systems - hmmm, 476 A.D. sounds familiar…

[@josiel152]

looks like you have studied the middle ages in depth. Interesting.

[@inregionecaecorum]

Was there not a second hand market in swords, not to mention spoils of war taken by men at arms from their victims? A new car is an expensive purchase today but a vast amount of people who do not have the income to buy a new car nonetheless own one

[@gregorybrown4062]

Spears and sharpened sticks were illegal to own. They had to be retrieved from the armory when needed. All could own a sword but they were expensive and easily confiscated

[@wbriggs111]

Swords were like machetts , instead of cutting through a jungle it is used to cut through unarmored troops. A shield was used to defend against swords. A sword used against a sword would ruin any good sword and only at last resort. You would use a mace, lance, arrow,or a battle ax.

[@longrider42]

I am not sure of the time frame. But I believe the Messer type sword, a single edged sword, was created so that the common people of Germany could carry a sword. Since the Messer was also referred to as a Big Knife, and not actually a sword. And if I am not mistaken there is a whole different style for fighting with a Messer. I know I love mine Grosse Messer, aka, Big Knife.

[@geoff4925]

Messer is just the German word for knife. The hilts of knives were constructed differently from those of swords so a sword sized knife could legally be made and sold by a member of the knifemakers guild. A sword could only be legally made by a member of the swordmakers guild.

[@BogeyTheBear]

You can hunt or fish with a spear. You can cut wood with an axe. You can drive posts with a hammer. You can carve with a knife. The sword is optimized for combat with no clear function beyond that.

[@winfieldjohnson125]

And...?

[@CrimeVid]

So long as you understand that villeins could only be armed by the order of their manor lord. Class really does not apply to land tied men (possessions) and they would have been the great majority of the rural population. A freeman could arm himself.

[@kylianvanhoorn2859]

Well this is a coincidence i just watched all three lord of the rings movies in the 2 past days, so this will certainly be a nice video to watch

[@herbertsmith6416]

It's cool when you dress the part

[@DenverLoveless]

Peter had a sword 1000 yrs before that, and no one took it from him even after cutting off someone's ear in defense of his master during His arrest.

[@wagon9082]

Good video

[@duelist1954]

Thanks

[@donyoung1384]

I have never heard Chaucer’s name pronounced the way you do it Mike. To us English, there is less “ow” sound and more “awe” sound.

[@duelist1954]

Thanks! I’ll get it right yet.

[@donyoung1384]

@@duelist1954 FYI “Chaucer” rhymes with “Saucer.”

[@richardnalborczyk2417]

Cool

[@KageMinowara]

Question: Who carried a sword in the Middle Ages? Answer: Badass OG pimps, that's who.

[@jeffthebaptist3602]

Kingston Arms Knight Sword and Arming Sword?

[@duelist1954]

Yes, a Kingston Arms Arming Sword Type XIV and a Kingston Arms 15th Century Knights Sword, Type XVIII

[@epzilon9419]

⚔️sometimes repressent strenght,respect n honor,then a mere distractrion as well.🎭😎🙏

[@olskool3967]

i would have went in the woods and cut me a hardwood club. then i would have killed me a sword man and then i would have had me a sword,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@GOBRAGH2]

Sounds like we should save our pennies.

[@JamesThomas-gg6il]

Mike, any time you feel like spreading the knowledge onto us unwashed peasants, please do. I would also like kinda add or ask rather, what about grosse messers? Would theu really be a thing, so to speak?

[@Tammy-un3ql]

👍👍👍

[@herbertsmith6416]

We're their.swords of good quality?

[@duelist1954]

You got what you paid for. The quality could vary quite a bit

[@brianfowler8544]

Me 🤣🤣

[@chrisbrown8108]

👍👍