Deathbringer: Mercenary Sword    $69  Expedited Shipping Available! E-mail service@strongblade.com or call 866-7SWORDS On Sale!    Please select the model that you would like to purchase, Then click on the Add to Cart button. Hand-and-a-Half Sword of the Death Dealers   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER  $69      Engrave this item for $15.   (Originally $109) |     In Stock - Ships in 1-3 days   Tempered Deathbringer What's this?   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T  $139      Engrave this item for $15.       In Stock - Ships in 1-3 days   Sharpened Deathbringer: Mercenary Sword Tempered   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T-S  $154      Engrave this item for $15.       In Stock - Ships in 1-3 days   Scratch and Dent Deathbringer, Tempered (Minor blemishes on leather)   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T-SD  $59       Out of Stock   Merceneries History is full of mercenaries. From the Spanish military genius El Cid to Owain Lawgoch, leader of the "Red hand" Free Company that fought against England in the Hundred Years War (which was actually 116 years long -- go figure), mercenaries have had a profound effect on the world. Wars have been won by mercenaries, cities and kingdoms have fallen to them and kings have been made by them. The Vatican has employed the Swiss "Helvetian" mercenaries as guards for centuries. The German landsknechts were some of the most feared mercenaries in history. They were so skilled with their pikes, swords and arquebuses, that they were paid double the going rate for most mercenaries. There have been skilled mercenaries from almost ever continent at one time or another in history, and though the ones who have fought in major battles get most of the press, it is the silent, wandering mercenaries that attract the attention of fiction writers. From the sell-sword Bronn, of George R. R. Martin's wonderful A Song of Ice and Fire series, to Kitiara Uth Matar, hired blade and sister to Raistlin and Caramon in the famous Dragonlance stories by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman, mercenaries have always tugged at our imaginations and brought wicked smiles to our lips.

The Spartans were reknowned for their ferocity and for their military strength and skill. Of the Greek city-states, the Spartans were one of the few who actually had a standing army with professional soldiers. (Most of the other city-states had sitting armies who would rarely stand at all. Okay, just jokes). The Spartans carried Spartan Spears in one hand and Spartan Shields in the other. They wore Spartan Helmets and Spartan Greaves, and bore Spartan swords at their sides. Coincidentally, Strongblade sells all of these.

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