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Landsknecht girl with big codpiece (1 and 2) by vanishlily
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Amused to see that long post about Landsknechts and their bare-legged battle shorts surfacing again. There’s another example in that pic and, given battlefield medicine of the time, a chap in shorts would probably be less at risk of infection from a injury to his bare leg than a man with lots of unwashed clothing fibres driven into the wound.
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As usual, there’s a lot of interest in the codpieces, which were of course the fashion of the time as well as projections (hah!) of aggressive masculinity, all of which suited Bad Boys like Landsknechts to a tee.
Nine years ago I reblogged and commented on a picture called “Young Man in a Landscape” by Vittore Carpaccio, which is a great reference for how Maximilian armour fitted a human being rather than an armature in a museum, and how a knight can be in shining armour without looking like he’s been chrome-plated.
So what has this to do with Landsknechts and codpieces?
(1) The mounted man in the background is wearing a “civilised” version of Landsknecht costume; it became fashionable and started being worn by other soldiers than the original mercenary roughnecks. The Papal Swiss Guard (mercenaries yes, roughnecks not so much) still wear a version of it to this day.
(2) Our knight is carrying a sword with the distinctive and typical Katzbalger hilt favoured by Landsknechts, but a much longer (more knightly, certainly more cavalry) blade.
(3) He’s got a codpiece. The funny part is that he’s using it as a mailbox. Why? In a painting this full of symbolism, your guess is as good as mine.
#arms and armour#landsknechts#katzbalger#maximilian armour#young man in a landscape#symbolism in art
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The sword of the day is the Katzbalger.
This one handed sword was a signature sidearm of the German Landsknechte, Renaissance-era mercenaries who last made an appearance here when I wrote about the Zweihänder. Its most distinguishing feature is its guard, shaped like an S or a figure 8. The blade had a rounded tip, making it ill-suited for thrusting. Instead, it would be used to hack and cut in close-quarters combat, when enemies got too close for arquebuses or pikes to be effective. The name means “cat’s skin,” and probably derives from the fact that the sword was not carried in a proper scabbard, but instead held on the waist by a cat’s skin.
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🗡️ The iconic sidearm of the ostentatious Renaissance Landesknecht mercenaries, the Katzbalger was purpose-designed for a close-in melee between entwined pike and halberd formations.
🗡️ The Katzbalger seems to be designed with two expectations in mind: that it needs to be short enough to be used in close quarters combat and that it be wide-bladed with a robust blade and guard. The Landesknechts and their classic foes, the Swiss mercenaries, fought in close formation with pike and halberd. Should formations become entwined or lighter soldiers get in close to break up the formation in a flank, the Landesknecht could well find his primary pike, halberd or greatsword to be too long. He could drop it to draw the Katzbalger to ensure he was not outclassed in a close-in fight.
🗡️ The blade profile of this Katzbalger is tapered just enough to make it a capable thrusting sword as well. A large S-guard affords a wide plane of protection to the hand and forearm without adding excessive weight.
🗡️ The broad blade certainly makes it a fierce chopper, but it also gives it durability and some mass to aid in deflecting or resisting larger weapons in a bind, which he might encounter from foes striking at a distance from behind a closer adversary in a tight fighting formation.
Kingston Arms – Katzbalger
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#my art#painting#fursony#bovid#minotaur#furry#16th century#katzbalger#maximilian armour#maximilian armor#maximilian breastplate#furry art#intensely proud of this
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just because he’s a halberdier doesn’t mean he doesn’t have something a little more personal
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landskenechte - graphite on bristol - 2021
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#obsessed with these guys#i know now that i drew them wearing their katzbalger wrong but oh well#landkenecht#landskenechte#graphite#my art#2021
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I've connected the dots
#read that in the buzzfeed guy's voice (you didn't connect shit)#yiffy lalonde harley#yiffany longstocking lalonde harley#bell chime katzbalger#the spot#susan pompoms#homestuck beyond canon#coquette dragoon#across the spiderverse#el goonish shive#venn diagram#...connected the spots you could say#i could've put Izutsumi here instead of Susan but she probably fits better. and I've only seen a few episodes of Izutsumi content
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Coquette dragoon is so good.,,,
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A Katzbalger, first quarter of the XVIth century.
Commission work.
Vastly inspired by the beautiful example kept at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow.
Blade is spring steel, fittings are mild steel and brass, heat-coloured. All fileworked, as you can see, imitating the slash-and-puff fashion so popular with the Landskechte.
Grip is horn, as are the scales on the by-knives.
Scabbard has a wooden core, with intermediate linen layer, and outer made of vegetable tanned leather. Cheese glue was used, and I think I'll rely more and more on it actually.
The chape is mild steel with brass rivets.
Again, making this set has been quite the learning experience, if only in better estimating the time some steps take.
Looking closely, you'll notice once again what could appear as imperfections to the machine-eye, but it turns out that the only way to make this piece was to go the old way, the long way, and at the end of the day the marks, bumps and other minute details are very similar to those one trained eye can spot on the original. Maybe a sign that I didn't do it that wrong, then ?
The Katzbalger itself is 895 mm long, and the blade is 756 mm, with a cross-section of 40x5 mm at its base.
Weight is 1170 g, point of balance 11.5 mm from the guard.
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Old sergeant by Orfii
#Orfii#veteran#plate armor#gun#musket#bayonet#axe#fighter#plume#cape#fur#sword#katzbalger#blind#eyepatch#disabled
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Swords Explained (Badly)
Arming sword: it’s the swordest sword to ever sword, nothing to explain, no complexity whatsoever, no sir.
Backsword: the extra-ancient, extra-special secret saber that you need to slay your coach to attain. Alas, for this sin you are cursed to forever wander, alone no matter the density of the crowd, that weirdo at the saber event whose weapon the gear inspectors puzzle over for fifteen minutes before finally shrugging and saying, “guess we’ll allow it.”
Basket-hilted broadsword: a single-handed sword with a unique, all-covering guard design, developed by the Scots to counter the British, who spread their tyranny to all corners of the globe through widespread use of their honorless hand-taps-only style of swordsmanship.
Cutlass: a saber too short to be useful outside its native environment of cramped sailing ships, the cutlass is now primarily used not as a weapon, but as steel plumage in the mating displays of that tropical bird of the sword nerd community, the ren faire pirate.
Dagger: a triangle-bladed spike of steel, the rondel dagger has been proven, by recent archaeological evidence, to be the only weapon that ever killed anybody in a medieval duel.
Dussack: a primitive boffer made from leather and wood. The term “dussack” is also occasionally used to describe a cutlass that happens to be owned by a German.
Gladius: it’s Greek or something.
Katana: A Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.
Katzbalger: the preferred close combat weapon of the Landsknects, the most dangerous polycule of gay furries since the Sacred Band of Thebes.
Kriegsmesser: a curved longsword sometimes mistaken for the world’s biggest steak knife, the kriegsmesser is today wielded by fencers too self-conscious to admit that what they really want is a katana.
Longsword (German): the last of the Third Reich’s technologically impressive but strategically useless wunderwaffen, the German longsword was invented in the waning days of World War II. At first glance a simple two-handed sword, its hidden power can be activated with a 90-degree twist of the handle, which bodily transforms the wielder into an attack helicopter, careening uncontrollably toward its opponent to cleave their skull with its rotor blades.
Longsword (Italian): the apex of edged weapon fighting technology, capable of beat-thrusting its way through the armor of a main battle tank, this sublime weapon was single-handedly invented by the one true Daddy of swordsmanship, Fiore dei Liberi.
Messer: a small single-handed sword, the messer is possessed of a strange psychic property which makes every person you ask give you a different explanation for why it looks like a big knife.
Montante: a sword as lonely as it is horny. Though famous for its ability to take many men at once, this mighty greatsword has lived past its brief glory days. Now, in this degenerate age when large groups of men no longer thrust themselves into tight holes in castle walls, the tragically sexy montante has been largely abandoned by fencers who fear it is too mighty to fight with, even blunt.
Rapier: this extremely fashionable sword was meticulously optimized to defeat other people with the same taste in fashionable swords, exceeded in this niche role only by any other weapon capable of binding with its slender blade, as is related by history’s foremost expert in rapier fencing, George Silver.
Saber (dueling): known from a single extant specimen of an Absolute Fencing-brand electric saber inexplicably dating back to 18th Century France, the dueling saber is among the best evidence we have for the existence of time travel.
Saber (military): a blanket term for dozens of different single-handed curved swords from around the world, military saber as we know it today is a multitude of different martial traditions stitched together into a shambling undead abomination that stalks from club to club, eagerly devouring any fencer too unga bunga to be taken in by the wibbly allure of dueling saber.
Sickle: it’s not a farming implement, not any longer. Not even symbol of communism, no. This weapon has entered its final form as a dagger for people who think they are the main character.
Sidesword: too sexy to be an arming sword, too thicc to be a rapier, this evolutionary link between the two was simply too hot and had to be expunged from history to keep all the other swords from looking bad. It was only rediscovered in the modern day by reconstructive archaeological investigations into the philosophical absolute of “sexy sword.”
Shashka: a primitive saber without any kind of guard to protect the wielder’s precious fingers, the shashka is a weapon wielded exclusively by what is perhaps the most perplexing breed of sword nerd: the Cossack weaboo.
Smallsword: with its feather-light, sewing needle-like blade, the smallsword was invented so that waifish, noodle-armed rich boys would have a more traditionally masculine way to express their desire to kiss each other.
Spadroon: a likely-mythical weapon of extremely dubious historicity. Not only are there no extant examples of this sword, but experts agree there never were any to begin with. Its continued presence in modern HEMA culture is likely due to the deranged ramblings of fencers whose minds have been destroyed by their insatiable fetish for hybrid weaponry.
Swiss saber: a curved longsword with shockingly good hand protection, the ornate Swiss saber also demonstrates why basket-hilted two-handed swords never became popular: they look fucking stupid.
Viking sword: an arming sword that dropped out of school before it could develop even a rudimentary cross guard, the viking sword is the weapon of choice for those whose faith in the Aesir is as unshakable as their love for their only source in reconstructing their religion: the band Heilung.
#hema#historical fencing#fencing#swords#longsword#rapier#saber#viking#sword fighting#shitpost#fuck yeah there's a sequel
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“Katzbalger is a Landsknecht sword for “cat fight” (close combat) with a wide blade and a complex figure-eight guard. Germany, 16th century.”
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✨Kingston Arms – Katzbalger Review ✨
🗡️ This reproduction of a Katzbalger arming sword by Kingston Arms has a sharpened, triple-fullered blade forged from 5160 high carbon steel. Its well-detailed hilt is crafted from antique-finished stainless steel. The grip is a section of polished wood accompanied by a flaring pommel. The sword is paired with a wood core scabbard which is bound in well-stitched leather with a protective chape of stainless steel.
Available to order now!
original video via sellsword.arts
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Lady Bell Chime Katzbalger succeeded at being an Illyasviel von Einzbern to me, which you can tell because I bother to write both of their names out in full
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