End Him Rightly A bizarre tactic in a Medieval fighting manual ( Gladiatoria MS KK5013)

If you want to mess em up, unscrew your pommel and throw it what This is a really strange technique shown in manuscript KK5013, which is part of the Gladiatoria, a German series of manuscripts from the 15th century. They deal with armored combat in a judicial duel, armed with spear, longsword, buckler and dagger. This seems to be evidence of swords with threaded pommels as early as the late Middle Ages, and it s also a really strange and apparently utterly impractical idea for catching your