How To Grip and Cut with a Suontaka Viking Sword (Petersen type AE)
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- In this video, I introduce a method for cutting with a sword with a Petersen type AE hilt and a very short grip length (~3 inches). The sword used in this video is the Castle Keep Suontaka Viking sword by Rob Miller.
thank you for your attention to detail Philip.
Have the Albion Knud on order, so this was an interesting and informative video! Thank you for your time and expertise, btw beautiful sword!
Super nice! thanks for sharing. :D
Amazing video than you for your research and information I value it greatly any info on how they held seax and puukho knives ?
Thanks for this! Question for you: Does the technique stay the same for larger, wider pommels such as the Manx sword found on the Isle of Man, etc.?
This is a great video, really informative. Our ancestors did NOT have tiny hands. On the subject of size, I think you and I are dead ringers for each other, although I cannot grow a beard as nice as yours. If you don't mind me asking, what is your height?
I thought they had a 4 inch grip, I've reproduced 2 migration period swords and I put 4 inch grips on both. I'm thinking 3 is too small.
Great video by the way.
No, these type AE hilts had grips ranging from 2.75 inches to 3.25 inches or so. There are some other Viking era hilt types which had somewhat longer grips, but rarely did they reach 4 inches or above. According to Petersen, the average grip length for Viking era hilts was around 3.6 inches. This video only addresses Viking era hilts of this type, not the earlier migration era swords.
@@monstrousmonk3372 That's really interesting, when I made my first one about 6 months ago I just knew they were supposed to barely fit your hand on the grip. So I put my hand around a piece of wood and measured it's bare minimal distance and I got 4 inches, so I went with that. I know very little about migration period swords, 2.27 inches is crazy I had no idea some were that tiny.
I've always hated how short Viking sword grips were, next time I try one out I'll give this a shot.
That sword is replica of the sword that was found from woman´s grave dated approximately 1030 AD. That grave is in Finland, in a village named Suontaka.
It wasn't a womans grave.