Question
One of these objects found in Cawood is a key example of the thirteenth type in a 13-type classification system created by Ewart Oakeshott, which built upon Jan Petersen’s 12 types. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects that may have ladder, rose, or wave patterns in a style developed in India. That style of these objects puzzled later European scientists and was called muhannad in the Middle East.
ANSWER: medieval swords [or blades; accept individual type of swords like longswords; prompt on weapons; prompt on steel by asking “what was the most common type of weapon that used that metal?”]
[10m] Oakeshott Type XV is commonly called a “hand and a half sword” or a sword named for this sort of person. Early in his life, people derisively nicknamed a descendant of Rollo and half-brother of Odo for being one of these people.
ANSWER: bastards [or bâtards; or bastard swords] (William the Conqueror was born out of wedlock.)
[10e] According to Lambert of Hersfeld, Hungary’s Árpád kings claimed the “Sword of Mars,” which the historian Priscus alleged originally belonged to this king. This king of the Huns was often called the “Scourge of God.”
ANSWER: Attila [or Attila the Hun; or Atli; or Etzel]
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