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two-handed argument that ended debates for three centuries before gunpowder cut it off mid-sentence.
half-swordingknights gripped the blade itself to stab through armor
murder strokeflip it, swing the hilt like a hammer
surprisingly lightmost weighed under four pounds, not fifty
the pommelcould be unscrewed and thrown to end opponents
a sciencemedieval masters wrote entire fencing manuals on it