Still feel a need to mention how much I like the slick intro vignette.

I love it how you say "suitable for the crusading period" as if you're equipping a fashionable Knight off to conquer Jerusalem. For indeed one simply must have a coordinated ensemble lest one stains ones escutcheon.

Great work on all of those daggers but I have to say the last one is my favorite. Great piece

I really like how you explain things clearly and concisely. And then you show us new examples based on the museum pieces and first- or second-order sources that you ALSO show us, letting us do out own research as well. And then you top it off by your relaxed, "Guy chatting on his stoop" presentation. - Thank you.

I stopped something very important to watch this, and I'm glad I did.

Daggers don't get much love. Everyone is interested in swords. Not everyone carried a sword, but everyone carried a dagger. I have 6 in my collection so far, but I fully intend for that number to grow.

Heck yeah. Got an antennae, 12th century quillon and 2 stilettos on their way this moment. Thank you.

Love all your videos. Always informative and enjoyable.

Beautiful work and good historical information, as always

Convergent evolution of weapons. Seax and bowie.

Yet again another awesome video and craftsmanship.

Always enjoy your talks.

Would you please do a full video over seax daggers?

Works of art and science, my man. And actual insight on the science of research. I could listen to/watch you go on about the history, form, manufacture, and composition of weaponry for an hour. Easily. You might consider a live stream, probably with a narrow subject matter; such as this topic. Q&A, and what not.

Clicked this so fast and read it as "crusader era badgers", now I'm imagining badgers with tiny daggers. Anyways, really interesting video as always, Tod!

That Antenna Dagger is absolutely gorgeous Tod!

Seax is just awesome mate. Cheers!

Another great video , Thankyou for sharing . Your video tend to be the high point in my week . Thank you again .

Thanks Tod, always interesting mate. Cheers from Australia.

Great video! The seax looks like it might have been a tool first and weapon second. Here in Finland we still use bit similar design for cutting smaller trees or branches.

If you're having trouble spelling or finding the Latin titled resources online, they are: "Liber ad honorem Augusti," "Codice del 1028, Enciclopedia di Maurus Rabanus: De Universo: de Repostoriis," and "Maciejowski Bible"

Fascinating ,as always

Cool video. I'm considering buying one of these three daggers, but I haven't decided, as I quite like them all. Nice use of Dowland there at the end.

Very interesting piece of history Thank you

"...They look pretty seax-like..." So, one could say... They're pretty seaxy?

can confirm, myarmoury is just... amazingly useful.

It looks like a broken-back seax also appears in the French manuscript Ms-1186 in Folio 19v from 1225. The illustration shows a thick cylindrical wooden handle without any guard, and an asymmetrical broken-back blade of roughly the same width as the handle, wielded by a man in mail hauberk and chausses typical of the period around 1200.

Which one is best to have on hand if I'm accosted by a Saracen?

More awesomeness and thank you for it Brother!! Your skill and knowledge are enviable in the very least! Seriously Tod this is my favourite topic (knives and daggers for every historical period!) And I'm a seax fanboy, even though I haven't got any in my collection. (Most a' pity!) So it's my bread and butter, thank you for all the great information! Please keep it up buddy!! Your vids are the best of the best on the topics man, I'm serious!! Also Sir, are you a fan of Spanish Navaja's or Espadas??? I just got the COLD STEEL XL ESPADA a few weeks ago, and it's chipped through the ice around heart to now become one of my favourite (this month lol) blade types. Have you ever made one Sir? God Bless.

Another brilliant video! Thanks Tod. Would you please give attribution to the musical vignettes you use in your videos.

Excellent information thank you for sharing. How were daggers attached to a belt?

Video topic request: crossbow bolt quivers.

Thank you, very nice!

myarmoury gang since 2010 reporting in

Great video and thank you for the MyArmoury.com recommendation. Was the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch also considered a crusader weapon? You should definitely forge one!

I'm a simple man I see a video of historical weapons and I click 😊

Another quality video, definitely gonna share this to some knight and paladin RPers I know

I've just bought that Quillon dagger from Todd Cutler....looks like it will match my longsword pretty closely 🤞🏻.

Just purchased the quilon dagger (3rd one shown) and I love it. Looks beautiful, feels amazing, nice and sturdy, an all around fantastic dagger of that style. Only thing of note is if you want a sharp edge it is difficult to get with a sharpening stand thing I have. The center is thicker and therefore hits the stone before it can make contact at the edge at the correct angle. I’m sure there’s a way to get around this but not with my resources. The sheath it comes with is fantastic. Nice leather with a metal tip and on the entrance it fits nice and snug all the way in and holds well.

Nice daggers!

What type of steel do you use for your knife making? And love the website thanks.

Looks like the same thing can be said about the "viking" sword as the seax in date.

Would you be able to do the Irish skean knife used by the Irish Kern warriors

so when looking for info on google about daggers you seem to always crop up haha, not a bad thing i guess you make good videos!! looking for info to make a more flashy dagger from late 12th to early 13th c, if ther is such a thing without going over the top.

excellent

I do like like learning about other weapons to like quarter staffs and spears but I really love the dagger in a modern setting you slice some one they get hurt bleed think twice about messing with you ... but if you have a gun you shoot the it only takes one bullet to killem so with a knife it's easyer to explain them a gun

This man has working-hands like rubber gloves.

with the coalition of countries involved I would expect there to be many different kinds?

Would they throw any of these daggers? It looks like the saex one would be really good for that.

Tod been looking at getting sum of Ur daggers are they heat treated and functional

The real question is, where is the music you use in the end of the video from?

I like that opening. It’s really cool. This whole video was cool. Glad I found this channel. ...Are you still allowed to say cool when you’re in you’re in your 30’s. Screw it, I’m leaving it that way.

Would love to hear your thoughts Tod on what Macbeth’s dagger might be like. Obviously the play is set in the 11th century. Always been curious. A quillon seems reasonable, although I have seen some productions use what seems like an antennae dagger, sometimes a baselard or even a rondel. Also curiouser still in the famous scene “dudgeon” is mentioned in relation to it “….and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.” Presumably dudgeon is referring to the handle and it made me think of your dudgeon dagger. A much later dagger admittedly, but one with links to lower Scotland at least, but a 16/17th dagger that Shakespeare would presumably know about and perhaps associate with Scotland. Just made me think of why it’s called a dudgeon dagger, whether it’s just referring to the type of wood used in the same way a sgian dubh aka black knife is so called as it’s handle is usually made of black bog oak….

Aside from dagger type uses, would these have also been there every day cutting tools? Or did they have other, smaller every day knives that they carried for more mundane tasks? What would they have been like?

Would they have still have used that type of sheath you show with the langseax????

What might have influenced the design differences? Were these general utility blades that were also used for fighting or primary weapons? The seax looks much more utilitarian to me and the others more weapon like. Am I off base on that?

What about those dagger/spear head looking things in the book on the right? What are those?

Sorry if I sound like an idiot (it's because I am in this field) but what are the circular stampings on the blades near the hand guard? Is that you're mark or a proof mark of some kind? Also your videos are awesome, keep up the good work.

I read a book about scandinavian crusaiders and crusaides. the crussaides was in a longer period then I thought and I read about a few I hardly know about. the crusaides in northern Europe was totaly forgoten when read history in school.

I just realized that some daggers are even bigger than the Kabar.

Hi, can you tell me if stiletto and dagger are the same thing? Thank you.

The crusades I suspect would be the worst era to find a standard. If the event was anything like more modern large scale mobilizations any weapon,old , new, or roundly obsolete would have been pressed into service.

im curious abou the source of those daggers rocking up in the 1650's since most of the daggers ive seen seem to be different, usually more refined and fullered, different pommels etc

I just went to his online store...looks like im going to have to save up for a while. Ouch.

I thought a dagger was made to be a concealed type knife , those look pretty big ?

I really like your content Tod you do your research and your honest about things your unsure of, one more thing Tod do you juggle?

I’m surprised there was no guard on the sax. Combat knives without a guard are super dangerous for your fingers as your hand will always slide down on a hard thrust that meets resistance.

How are seaxes fastened to belts? A belt clearly doesnt fit through the rings on the sheath. I cant find any valid information but i assume they are strapped or hooked on somehow. Hope i can get some help here.

Do you sell to the US

What’s the tang on the seax ?

What's the best resource to find info about clothing and soft kit from viking period to Renaissance?

I see you painted your logo on your workshop door.

The last "very straight and very ordinary looking quill and dagger" which you said ended in the 1650's is remarkably similar to a Fairbairn Sykes which is still in military service.

that seax handle looks like itd get real slippery with some blood on it.

For some reason, and I mean this in a good way, when you speak about the suitability of items for a time period , it almost seems like you are about to gear up for time travel lol.

Will Rockwell hardness of 50 stand up to cutting tasks?

The Guido relief is in Grossmünster, Zürich, Switzerland, dated to ca. 1170. It is my understanding that it depicts "the earliest medieval dagger" (as opposed to the ancient pugio). But I have to admit that the image isn't sufficiently clear to rule out that it might also be a knife/seax. I was not aware of the Montecassino drawings, but they seem to be absolutely "out of place". I believe it can still be said that as far as we know, *there were no daggers* up to about 1150 or possibly 1250. This is also borne out by the fact that there is no early/high medieval word for "dagger" in western languages. "Dagger" (Old French dague) itself is 14th century. French "poignard" is 15th century, German "Dolch" also 15th century. They had no word for "dagger" in the high medieval period because the thing didn't exist.

Tod, could an Antennae be used as a parrying dagger?

I know daggers are only for killing things, but they are so beautiful.... Love a bit of symmetry

Learn something ever clip I watch . 👍

There's one thing I'm wondering 850 lb draw weight crossbow but with the modern-day draw length how would that fair if it's the same technique and style in the 17th to 18th century times if they can reliably make it's as is if you want to just wanted comments or thumbs

Do we know what kind of social class these various daggers may have belonged to? Were they all knightly weapons in this period or would lower social classes also have carried them?

Saxon intensifies. “Who dares battle the Saracen”

Would look nicer if the gold edging metal on the sheath was one whole piece. Otherwise they look awesome.

Didn't you used to offer a small seax? Or is it now rolled into the "viking eating knife"?

The old tried and true Seax is my choice to cope with these.....uncertain.....times. If it was good enough for Ragnar the Peacemaker it is good enough for the 21st century.

ooo I like to learn about daggers and swords and sometimes put on videos about bladed weapons on as like a swanky version of white nois to get some sleep

I have a theory that American Bowie knives are a direct evolution of the seax. German immigrants lead to our flintlock rifles all looking generally like Jaeger rifles and I suspect the same of Bowie knives.

Here is the replica of a Dagger-Knife (Dolchmesser, ~35 cm length) handle made from boxwood, early second half of the 13. Century. Found in a well at Mülenen. The sheath is a replica from the same time at Bielersee, Switzerland. www.brandenburg1260.de/dolchmesser.jpg

What exactly is the purpose of the design of the quilon dagger? Making the dagger hilt like a sword hilt seems counter intuitive, as they are used so differently

Pilum test on scutums and other shileds!

How is a seax a dagger, though?

The fist dagger (broken back seax) looks remarkably like what later developed in the United States as the Bowie knife. I guess it is kinda of hard to change what is a great knife. The Armorers back in the days must have known what worked.

Hey Tod, I have a thought experiment for you: If you were teleported to medieval times right now and the local lord challenged you to make the best crossbow you could with all the materials he can give you, using all your advanced knowledge - what kind of crossbow would you make?

Does anyone know which daggers or knives were used by the murderers of cesar ?

God damn I love that lip smack.

So is the seax from... saxony?

Wouldnt your hand slip down the blade on a sax if you stabbed someone? The reason why people who kill someone with a kitchen knife has cuts on their hands from the hand slipping down the blade

Thinking about it logicaly a seax type knife would fade from use then suddenly end at 1066.

I wonder if there were any folding knives in those periods. Nice Video as always.