Katzbalger
Katzbalger results literally in " étripe chat".
The katzbalger is the sword " courte" Lansquenet, or sometimes of the Doppelsöldner. To qualify " court" can be in certain moved enough cases, since if common Katzbalger measured between 60 cm and 1 meter, some made 1,20 meter of blade, in addition to one handle with two hands (but beside the Espadon S Flamberge S which could reach 2 meters of blade in addition to their handles, one can imagine the relativity of the " term; court").
The katzbalger has a blade in general ranging between 60 cm and 1 meter, broad and with two edges parallel, round at its end. Its guard consists of simple a Not-with ass, or often made of two let us quillons twisted in " S" around the guard.
The use of the katzbalger disappeared with the lansquenets, at the time where the firearms definitively the knives exceeded. IT was one of the last swords of the knights strictly speaking.
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