Canaanite Khopesh Vs Viking Lang Seax! on Padded Armor ( Gambeson/Aketon) 

A lot of youtube channels are suffering with advertising the past week! Your content has no bad language, no offensive content and is purely educational in my mind, hopefully RU-vid can cut you guys some slack!

Interesting comparison you make here, shame they never went blade to blade in history so we'd know which one would win there. Cheers, Hilbert

You taught me something about strike angles! Top shelf, brother

I wonder how a steel khopesh would fair.

Neils work is just sublime.

To Thegn: Question/Challenge about the Khopesh. How the does Khopesh perform in off center thrust cuts? (Im trying to figure out a phrase to explain this). I was thinking more on its use in shield wall vs shield wall and how thrusting might be blinded by each other's shield. If you thrust with a Khopesh you might miss with the ~2" wide tip. However there is still the other ~4" width of the curve. (measurements are guesses, I don't have one available to put a ruler on). The curve would allow you to get a sliding cut on the push cut and possibly on the draw cut. A shield man then could press in tight on the enemy thrusting with this "wide" danger zone to inflict wounds. Most depictions of the era suggest torso armor but unarmored limbs. The legs in particular could be wounded with the "thrust to cut" action. So to would the be neck of the average soldier. This might add to the validity of this strange weapon (plus the ability to hook and pull shields/limbs with the blunt side of the curve) So Thegn, what are you thoughts on this? Could you run a test for it? Where you thrust so the point misses the target but the curve does? (or have you already).

Pretty sure the kopesh and lang seax was a popular weapon use amongst the nobleman or the more wealthier warriors, due to the standard infantryman their up against wore no armour or padded armor. Similar how early medieval period where knights and lords uses the falchion against padded armour infantryman.

Great comparison; makes me wonder how each fares against leather lamellar

I'm wanting to know which sword is better the Egyptian Khopesh or the Celtic/Greek Falcata. For both of these weapons had a type of cure in the blade allowing the blade to make impact behind the shield, and even had a type of deadly blow upon the blade.

I like the ice cream truck theme music in the background.

khopesh is a beast...nicely done, thank you

can you test a falcata or a gladius or similar sword swords ? I remeber you in the past doing the same test with more later swords and having trouble to cut through..

just wanna ask is historical gamebson just as thick as your padded cloth or is it thicker?

Unfortunately I do not own a seax. What I 've been wondering about: when confronted with mail: wouldn't it break limbs or ribs when used with the blunt back? That would have been sufficient in real battle scenarios, wouldn' t it? And you do not risk dulling the sharp edge for situations where you might need that. Anyway, just an idea, and wondering how it would work out in reality.

Fascinating.

Is The Seax heavier than the Nordic Longsword pound for pound.

Man the khopesh is a devastating weapon.

it's vikingr

3:40 ICE CREAM TRUCK!!

0:28 Is that an archer with a shield on the the lower left?

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Great vid man ;-)!

That video was very well done I was impressed with both weapons, it sucks to hear that YT is giving channels such as yours,Joerg and ZGB such a hard time I don't know what there problem is! maybe it is because angry soccer moms are up set that their children are watching your videos LOL:) keep up the good work.

Thegn by any chance do you know which Khopesh was sent to you from Bronze Age swords their are 3 of them on the website also thanks and I really enjoy your videos and have a good day

Thrand, when did you get that Khopesh? I've been trying to get my wife one for years now but Neil is hard to reach - any by the time he was reliably trading e-mails, the molds were exhausted and needed to be retooled :/

I really wish you guys would invest in decent cameras and audio recording equipment.

A great reminder as to how amazing chainmail was for those who could afford it and of course bronze breastplates.

It's pronounced more like "sea-axe" without a pause between the words. To be completely correct, the "e" is pronounced like the first "e" in "ever" and the "a" like in "dark".

sick vid

What happened to Eldgrim? I haven't seen him in a long time.

thrand how can you make such mistake Seax is not Viking weapon its Anglo-Saxon origin, they got their nation name from Seax(saxon)

whenever I see these weapons i REALIZE christ, these people back in day days must have died extremly gruesome deaths. can you imagien being thrusted or slashed with those weapons? and listend to the screams or sounds people made on hits.

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damn seax is really a militia killer

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i know its 3 year old but thats not a seax. thats a scramasax with a "sheep-foot" blade... seax are known in english for being broken back blades. very hard and straight angle on the back of the blade. langseax are no exceptions

why do nobles even wield swords as side arm when a seax can chop straight through gambeson while swords during that time can barely stab through gambeson

Your Strikes, are weak my friend, but your video is great ty for the upload : )

Dude thats an Egyptian sword not cannanite

Hi, I just came to give my opinion on this unfair topic, you see, if these two armies do ever engage in combat, the steel weapon wielders will be superior to the bronze weapon wielders, even if these steel weapon wielders are just coward, overated and hardly trained savages. Deal with it, people, vikings weren't that great.