No no Nytesky, don't encourage me. Sorry I've no idea how much it weighs, I just know it takes almost all my strenght to haul it off the floor. It's a iron/steel sword (ie if it was completely original it would have been of iron construction but it is modern so made of steel). It is a traditional English Broadsword circa 1450 so completely out of step with all the historical stuff I'm into. I also tried some armour on from 1485 a couple of months back and nearly got squashed, never again, chain mail is soooo heavy! To use a broadsword you swing the massive thing round your head and cleave the skulls of your enemies apart with it. (It was Richard III favourite weapon - sorry that was industrial strength boring) As for the Saxons, phew where do I start, this is one of my favourite subjects because I'm of Saxon descent! (My real surname is Saxon)O.K., potted history. The Saxons are tribes from Germany who moved into the British isles when the Romans left. You could consider it an invasion but largely they just moved in peacefully where ever there was land spare.(This is circa 410AD) They stayed and never left, their culture being very 'middle earthish' using runes like the dwarves etc. They were repeatedly attacked by Vikings from Scandinavia and were eventually destroyed by William the Conqueror who came over from Normandy in France in 1066 and splattered them. Oh, goodness I've just seen how long this reply is! Gosh I'm so sorry. I really do go on. So so sorry, I'm gone.
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