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Dane Axe/War Axe Trainer

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Description

This trainer has been carefully fashioned to look as realistic as possible so it can be effectively used in solo practice, training drills, and demonstrations and any other activity where you want a reasonably close approximation of realism but not the extreme danger and risk associated with an actual polearm.

Product Name: Dane Axe/War Axe Trainer
Period: 10th – 16th c.
Source: Despite the name, this weapon was used throughout Scandinavia and the British Isles; most famously at the Battle of Hastings (1066). It remained in use for over 500 years, still borne in the 16th c. by the terrifying Gallowglass warriors of Shakespearean infamy, as well as in various other parts of Europe and Russia.
Blade Cross Section: Broad Axe
Overall Length: 18 cm

Required Pole crossection: 35x28mm oval