April 5, 2024
Viking/Saxon Scramaseax Seax w/Trad Sheath Asatru SCA
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This is a hand forged custom viking style scramaseax with a cherry wood handle, steel and antler fittings and a traditional Viking Age leather sheath. The blade is a solid one piece tang that is set through the handle. The guard is steel fit to match the handle at the blade and the pomel is of antler. The practice of naming swords is an old one. The Norse myths and sagas speak of the names of swords, spears, seaxes and axes. Some were descriptive in some way of the sword's appearance or it's abilities. Along the steel guard of this seax I have carved the name of this blade in runes of the elder futhark. It reads "Wolf Tooth". A Seax (also Hadseax , Sax ; occasionally referred to as a Scramaseax, or Food Knife, though this definition only appears once in the entire known literary evidence), was a type of Germanic single-edged knife. They occur in a size range from 7.5cm to 75cm. The larger ones ( langseax ) were probably weapons , the smaller ones ( hadseax )tools , intermediate sized ones serving a dual purpose. Wearing a seax may have been indicative of freemanship, much like the possesion of a spear since only free men had the right to bear arms. The seax was worn in a horizontal sheath at the front of the belt. Scram refers to food and seax to a blade (so, "food knife"). [ The Saxons may have derived their name from seax (the
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