Rondel Dagger

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16 points·ftxbro··5 comments

So this post is marked as having been posted 2 hours ago and I definitely posted it way longer ago than that so it must have got into the recirculation queue. I guess the mods thought you guys would like daggers lol. Anyway the original context was that they have found a bronze age sword and people were commenting on its pommel and I mentioned that its pommel looked similar to one of a rondel dagger (not saying the sword itself is a rondel dagger). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342175

If you're an aristocrat and you're in a war, if you're not killed by a horse falling on you, this is probably what is going to end you. If you die by violence, of course. Otherwise, the septicemia takes the grand prize.

Somewhat on that topic, "The King" with Tim Chalamet is pretty good, with some decently done historical battles. Watch Henry V shank a Whole Lot of People.

Tod's Workshop on Youtube has a couple videos of both the production and use of a rondel dagger. Really an effective weapon.

https://youtu.be/7iU3q23jGX0

Very effective against potentially armored enemies. Less useful than a cut and thrust dagger form against unarmored opponents. Also harder to use in combination with another weapon and less concealable than the later stiletto.

As with just about everything, there are tradeoffs. They're definitely one of the more effective dagger forms ever made though.

HEMA wrestling and grappling are mostly done with this dagger as the main killing point, so it might be interesting to watch some Kampfringen/Abrazaré videos to see how they might have been used

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