Halberd
Cleveland Museum of Art

Halberd

1600s

steel; new rectangular wood haft with planed corners
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The earliest known mention of the halberd is believed to be by the Swiss poet Konrad von Würzburg (d. 1287) who wrote about them in his <em>History of the Trojan War</em>.

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