Seax, sax, scramasax, long knife.

The seax, or scramaseax, is a single-edged weapon that was one of the most affordable and popular weapons of the early Middle Ages. Their length commonly ranges +/- from 7 to 50 cm or more. Its function of cutting, chopping and stabbing makes it, next to the axe, the most sought-after practical equipment of every man. However, their purpose has some differences, especially if you choose a decorated sheath.

For with these, reenactors are often angry that some fellow-campers acquire a beautiful item, disproportionate to the costume, and no longer give it the proper historical weight. The beautifully decorated ones obviously refer by their position in graves to the fact that this weapon was worn as a badge of status, a reward from the ruler, and so on. Surely it wasn't worn on the back of the head and used to walk on branches.

Decorated seax holsters are also essentially jewellery and as such we would like to look at them and display them wherever we go ?

Now that you have your knife, machete or axe picked out, you would also like to wear it strapped to your waist. One of the fancy things is the snake eye from Birka. Its additional pinning can be combined with, for example, our favourite horned lion-shaped charge from the same locality.