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Viking Axe – Lord of Battles

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(6 customer reviews)

$24.63

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This Viking Axe has a forged head of high carbon steel. Most of the axe has been left rough-finished for a forged, rustic appearance. The edge has been ground, sharped and polished, though it is left unsharpened. The shaft is of wood.

The war axe was always a popular weapon with Vikings – Fast, portable, durable and devastating, the war axe fulfilled all the requirements for a raiding weapon. The single-handed Scandinavian war axe has a smaller head than is commonly depicted in most fantasy depiction, but this serves only to make it faster and thus deadlier. When put into motion it carries more than enough heft to rend the links of chainmail and fatally strike the man within in a single hit – so why make it bigger, heavier and slower?

The axe does not have to rely on cutting alone to do deadly damage, for the weight of the axe does bludgeon damage as well as cleaving damage, both cutting and impacting flesh and bone. Though not as well suited as a survival tool as a utility axe, the war axe can be used for light camp duties in a pinch. Like swords, well-made axes were given names and supernatural attributes by the successful warriors who wielded them. All these attributes made the war axe well-suited for the long-range raiding the Vikings undertook, and brought more than enough bite to the fight to deal with the locals, however well armed, when they got there.

6 reviews for Viking Axe – Lord of Battles

  1. Dexter Lee Wilson

    You get what you pay for. A good axe head and shaft, the head isn’t atached to the haft in any way other than the wood progressivly getting thicker towrds the end as to stop the head from fying off the end when swung. The head will eventually wear down the wood from constant movement when being swung, but some leather will fix that in no time if you know how to wrap it. All in all a good, cheap, rustic looking axe.

  2. Jeremiah

    All around disappointment. After signing up to be informed when this cool looking ax was going to be in stock again, I was excited to get the email that it was available for purchase. I ordered one and happily paid the extra $15 to have it sharpened as well. The delivery was fairly quick, however what I got it the mail was less that satisfying. The ax head is shaped nothing like what is pictured on the site, its basically a normal tomahawk, the distinctive slant of the cutting edge isn’t there. After only a few days of just hanging on my weapon rack, the head has come loose and easily falls off the handle. Arguably worst of all, the extra money I paid to have it sharpened went to waste, it isn’t even sharp enough to cut a piece of paper.

  3. Mike M.

    Not bad for price It will need some work before it can be used, ie handle shaping, leather wrap, head security etc
    When honed it holds an edge well, handles well

  4. isaac

    ready for battle for sure i got unshaped and with like oh 3 mins of work with a carbee sharpener cleave thought a water bottle with no effort

  5. isaac

    it can loosen up but you can fix it if if you tie a clove hitch at the bottom of the axe head and rap the rope in a X pattern 3 to 4 time then tie an onther clove hitch at the top of the head it will make it stay and if your worried it wouldnt look right the northmen did the same thing when the’re axes loosen up

  6. Chris

    GREAT VALUE For the price, this axe is the real deal. However you need to invest a little work but once you do, I’m certain it will last a life time… Since I bought it I have felled around 80 small and medium trees on my property that needed to come down and it’s still going strong. And that is saying something for a medium sized hatchet. The handle needed to be shaved down in some areas for comfort, and the cutting area sharpened obviously, but once you do that you’ve got a quality tool that most folks out there are paying hundreds for. It’s carbon steel and a hardwood handle… Holds a razor edge with ease. Make sure to keep it oiled or it will rust quickly. The head has never come loose, however with these types of round-eye slotted axes you simply take a wood mallet and tap on it until it’s tight.

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