huge honking wood axe

Magmaforge · Post by **Magmaforge** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:44 pm

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Ee.3.59/browse?40
(click the page on the right, follow instructions to zoom)
It's huge! If the artist had any sense of proportion, that axe head is bigger than the head of the woodsman holding it!

-Mag (apologies for my poor URL skills =)

Magmaforge · Post by **Magmaforge** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:13 pm

found another one, wielded by Harold Harada himself, and it's not for wood!! Also, a very weird hooked and ridged sword on the far right.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Ee.3.59/browse?56
(click on the right page)

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:07 am

maybe some axes were that big. pesonally i don't have any pictures or sizes of axes from that time but i could be right. couldn't I

Stacy Elliott · Post by **Stacy Elliott** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 10:07 am

Those pictures are as accurate as a Mel Gibson film..

Come on.. HH was killed in 1066....

Destichado · Post by **Destichado** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:48 am

I don't know about the size a proportion of these things vis a vis that painting, but I do know around that time axes were used with blades "four hands wide" -that's 16 inches!!!

It may be more accurate than you might think at first glance. Then again, it could be that famously medieval artistic perspective striking again.

Magmaforge · Post by **Magmaforge** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:14 pm

Destichado, where did you hear that "four hands wide" bit?

^ · Post by ^ » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:29 pm