guisarme
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thumb|Two examples of Guisarmes thumb|Illustration of a scene from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, showing an axe-shaped "giserne". A guisarme (sometimes gisarme, giserne or bisarme) is a polearm used in Europe primarily between 1000 and 1400. Its origin is likely Germanic, from the Old High German , literally "weeding iron". Like many medieval polearms, the exact early form of the weapon is hard to define from literary references, and the identification of surviving weapons can be speculative.
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- Possible interpretations of form
- Illustrations and textual evidence
- References
thumb|Two examples of Guisarmes thumb|Illustration of a scene from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, showing an axe-shaped "giserne". A guisarme (sometimes gisarme, giserne or bisarme) is a polearm used in Europe primarily between 1000 and 1400. Its origin is likely Germanic, from the Old High German , literally "weeding iron". Like many medieval polearms, the exact early form of the weapon is hard to define from literary references, and the identification of surviving weapons can be speculative.
==Possible interpretations of form==
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