Zweihänders were considered specialized weapons, were common throughout Europe (especially with Swiss and German), and continued ... The potential site of an early medieval settlement is located ...

Amateur detectorists found a cache of medieval weaponry near the village of Wielka Tymawa in Poland. They discovered a two-handed sword, or rather a hand-and-a-half sword, and two axe heads from ...

One can imagine that a sword large enough that it required two hands to swing about in battle could get rather tedious to lug around medieval-era Poland. As such, one could also understand some ...