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Updated: May 24, 2025
The hand-gisarm had been a weapon very much in vogue in King Richard's day, and was now nearly if not entirely out of fashion with the younger generation of warriors. The Earl of Alban was, of course, well used to the blade; with Myles it was strange and new, either for attack or in defence.
At this third command the combatants, each of whom had till that moment been sitting as motionless as a statue of iron, tightened rein, and rode slowly and deliberately forward without haste, yet without hesitation, until they met in the very middle of the lists. In the battle which followed, Myles fought with the long sword, the Earl with the hand-gisarm for which he had asked.
The usual lance had not been included in the list of arms, the hand-gisarm being substituted in its place.
The weapons allowed by the High Court were then measured and attested. They consisted of the long sword, the short sword, the dagger, the mace, and a weapon known as the hand-gisarm, or glave-lot a heavy swordlike blade eight palms long, a palm in breadth, and riveted to a stout handle of wood three feet long.
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