Guisarme

A Guisarme (also Gesa, Gisarme, Gysarme, Jasarme ) was a common in Europe Polearm, which emerged from the peasant tool scythe.

History

The Guisarme was developed from the scythe. In many older textbooks it is assigned to the Glefen, the partisans, or battle-ax, but one of the war or storm scythes. The first copies of the Guisarme are described in the 12th century in England. She was in the Middle Ages a popular and widely used weapon, probably because it was easy and cheap to produce. The Guisarme - or even the storm scythes - was used by the 11th century to the early 19th century.

Description

The Guisarme consists of a more or less long or wide scythe blade that is reinforced on the back. In most versions, a more narrow and pointed blade is mounted on the back of the blade. This blade is short and slightly curved or long and straight up. In other embodiments, a smaller pusher blade still attached to the tip of the scythe blade. In some versions, the blade does not resemble a scythe blade, but rather the blade of a Knipp. There are Guisarmen from England, Germany, Italy and France.