A Fourteenth Century Sword from Moldoveneşti (Hung.: Várfalva)
A Fourteenth Century Sword from Moldoveneşti (Hung.: Várfalva)

Summary/Abstract: The two-edged swords are a small but significant group of the medieval material culture of Transylvania.2 For various subjective and objective reasons the scholarly world, which dealt with swords of the migration and the early medieval period of Europe, neglected the research of this group of swords. Although the European sword was classified in numerous types and sub-types precise definitions of date and place cannot be done. Therefore in some cases it seems more practical to look for a period during which it might have been in use than to try to date the sword or its types, even if this does not supply a certain date.3 Swords were widespread and very distributable objects throughout Europe and it is impossible to assign certain specific regions of origins. Since, out-of-context finds get published rarely it is our aim to publish this single find in order to make its type and details available for the researchers dealing with medieval weapons.

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