Stiletto

A stylet (from the Latin Stilus: metal pen, pen ) is a thrusting weapon with a long, slender blade. In its country of origin was called this weapon also " Misericordia " (Latin for " mercy" ), in the German language " grace timer ", " grace Bringer" or " Gnadgott ".

History

This popular piercing weapon can be detected since the early 16th century. The purpose of the relatively narrow but long and stable blade is, but rather to inflict as little as possible externally visible damage such as significant blood flow vast, deadly as possible, internal damage. The stylet thus makes it rather unremarkable to kill, which favors the escape of the perpetrator.

The stylet is the Parierstangendolchen related stabbing of Northern Italian origin. The stylet is slimmer and smaller than the conventional dagger, his straight quillons and quite short. But its most distinctive features is its narrow, extremely stiff blade that has a three - or four-sided cross-section and is needle sharp. The stylet emerged in northern Italy at the beginning of the 16th century, it experienced its heyday in 1600, but came 50 years later out of fashion. Since you einschätzte the stiletto as treacherous, it was banned by many municipal authorities. But its small dimensions allowed a slight Hide the stylet in the clothes, so that the regulatory prohibition usually ran on empty.

Its very stable and sharp, but not sharp blade was perfectly suited to penetrate chain mail, as well as small cracks or gaps in a metal harness.