Francisca Axe, Antiqued

Franciscan-Style Viking Axe

SBCH-AXE-FRANCISCA

$88

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Antiqued Francisca Axe with Swept Haft and Blades

•	Historically Accurate
•	Hand-Forged and Battle Ready
•	Made from Tempered High Carbon Steel
•	Beautifully Swept Blades and Haft
•	Perfect for Throwing or Hand To Hand

Ah, the Franks. A Germanic tribe so delicious that hot dogs (and lots of big guys with mustaches) were named after them. It's a little known fact that Nathan, of Nathan's Hot Dogs, was a direct descendant of the Frankish warlord Clovis.

(editor's note: that is completely made up. Stick to the facts or you'll be cloven from our staff).

As I was saying, Franks have nothing at all to do with hot dogs or large, sweaty men. The Franks were a fierce Germanic tribe that eventually spawned the Merovingian and the Carolingian empires. And they also had really cool axes. So cool, in fact, that the Vikings adopted them for themselves.

This particular axe was used by the Vikings for both throwing and for hand-to-hand combat. The up-swept blades end in sharp spikes that can penetrate chain mail armor, either on the forehand or backhand. The swept wooden haft of the weapon provides additional leverage when thrown, although you can't tell that from the image above.

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When Strongblade refers to a "Battle Sword," we are referring to most European medieval swords with blades longer than 35” or so. These type of swords included hand-and-a-half swords (sometimes refered to as Bastard Swords) and the big two-handed swords. Real battle swords had blades well in excess of this, and, in fact, a 35" sword was considered a bit skimpy for fighting skirmishes. But for home use and light sparring, a 36" blade is fairly long.

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