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A falchion was used by the Minotaur General Otmin, leader for the White Witch's army in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In Sailor Moon, Sailor Uranus' Space Sword is themed after a falchion. In Brisingr, Eragon uses a falchion after he loses his first sword, Zar'roc, in the climactic battle of Eldest. The weapon ...
The contemporary term for this weapon may have been "faussart," which referred to various single-edged weapons related to the scythe, alongside terms like falchion, falcata, or fauchard, all derived from the Latin term for "scythe."
Gaia provided him with the weapon, and when Uranus next came to lie with Gaia, Cronus leapt up and castrated his father, overthrowing him and driving him away forever. Thus, the blade (whether harpe, sickle or scythe) became a symbol of Cronus's power. Hermes, a grandson of Cronus, was said to have slain Argus Panoptes with a harpe to rescue Io.
Subtype 2a Only one blade is represented in this type, often called the ‘reverse edged’ falchion. [12] [13] In use from 1300~1370, these falchions are sharpened along the ‘short’ edge, which features a clipped portion, leading to the reinforced thrusting tip. These are known from two surviving examples, one of which displays ...
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The territory of the Scythian kingdom of the Pontic steppe extended from the Don river in the east to the Danube river in the west, and covered the territory of the treeless steppe immediately north of the Black Sea's coastline, which was inhabited by nomadic pastoralists, as well as the fertile black-earth forest-steppe area to the north of the treeless steppe, which was inhabited by an ...