Fibula Norse Seax with Chain

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The Fibula Norse Seax with Chain is a very small and robust tool steel blade sturdy and beautiful with a Rosewood handle with brass. Decorated vegetable tanned leather sheath with brass and silver historical ornamentation Norse Viking designs. Its small size makes it a great addition to Viking Boob Bling, use the chain to suspend it from turtle broaches! Works as a Viking belt knife too! A camp knife for medieval Viking, LARP, and SCA. Product Details: Rosewood handle. A natural brown vegetable tanned leather scabbard. Historically decorated Norse Viking Brass Scabbard fittings. Hand-hammered tool steel blade of 420 stainless. Rockwell Hardness 48. Chain included. Suspend from Viking turtle broaches or belt! Measurements: Fibula Norse Seax with chain measures 4 inches or 10 cm long. Blade width is 3/6 inch or 2 mm. Blade length is 1 & 3/4 inches or 4.5 cm. Blade thickness at the handle is 3/16 inch or 4 mm. Handle length is 2 & 1/4 inches or 5.5 cm. The chain averages with loops included 7 &1/4 inches or 18.5cm History: The Fibula Norse Seax with chain is from the family of knives known as Seax, also known as hadseax, sax, seaxe, scramaseax, scramsax, means knife or cutting tool in Old English. In modern archaeology, the term seax is used specifically for the typically large knives worn by men in the 5th to the 11th century in the region roughly enclosed by Ireland, Scandinavia, and Northern Italy. The seax was most common in Germanic Tribes and Viking culture and often featured a very elaborate and decorative sheath. Show more