VIKING SEAX DAGGER AH3145 DEEPEEKA This dagger can attribute its unique and striking appearance due to blackened steel and its brass wire wrapped wooden grip that truly makes it stand out from the pack. This blade of this seax is made from high carbon steel and measures 13-2/4 inches in length. The hilt and pommel are of blackened steel. The wooden grip is tightly wrapped with brass wire that has been partially blackened. It comes with a leather sheath that has been stitched with leather strips. This dagger measures over 17 inches long and is hand forged and crafted by artisans Deepeeka. The blade comes factory dull to allow for personal sharpening preferences depending on intended usage. Deepeeka is world renown for their skills and dedication to building fine historic weapons and armour reproductions.
• Overall length: 19-5/8" • Blade length: 13-3/4" • Grip Length: 4-1/8" • Weight: 1 lb 8 oz • Edge: Blunt • Point of Balance: 2-5/8" • Blade Steel: EN45 High Carbon Steel • Blade Width: 46.2 mm • Blade Thickness: 4.8 mm - 4.5 mm • Tang to Pommel: Threaded
Specs may vary slightly from piece to piece.
A scramseax (also seax ) was a type of Germanic single-edged knife. Scramseax seem to have been used for warfare and as a tool. They occur in a size range from 2.9" to 29.5". The larger ones (langseax) were probably weapons, the smaller ones (hadseax) tools, intermediate sized ones serving a dual purpose. Wearing a scramseax may have been indicative of freemanship. The scramseax was worn in a horizontal sheath at the front of the belt. Scram refers to food and seax to a blade (so, "food knife"). There is some debate about the authenticity of the longer word scramseax. The Saxons may have derived their name from seax (the implement for which they were known) in much the same way that the Franks were named for their francisca. This claim is largely supported by the appearance of scramaseaxes in early Saxon heraldry.