pull the rider, thus caught, to the ground. If much resistance wasmade, he had only to give the weapon a twist, and the curved spike which wasplaced on the under side of the staff, in a plane at right angles to that ofthe instrument itself, would pierce his body, and put him at once ho?%s decombat.…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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