New Findings of Bayonet-Pointed Kords Within Ukraine
New Findings of Bayonet-Pointed Kords Within Ukraine
Author(s): Volodymyr Prokopenko, Sviatoslav SYCHEVS’KYJSubject(s): History, Military history, Middle Ages, Modern Age
Published by: Instytut Historii UwS
Keywords: kords; combat knives; medieval arms; Late Middle Ages; Ukraine; Central and Eastern Europe
Summary/Abstract: This article continues the authors’ preliminary research in the history of weapons within the territory of modern Ukraine and is dedicated to the introduction of three kords with a bayonet-shaped blade into the scientific circulation. Combined in this publication on the basis of a specific structure of the blade, they are quite peculiar and extraordinary specimens of combat knives dating from the period between the 15th and the early 16th centuries.
Journal: Historia i Świat
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 275-279
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English