Talk:Glaive

message: Just sticking this link here for future reference, some of these polearm articles need cleaning up  —porges(talk) 02:27, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dumdedum 

message: Not sure if the mention of Svärdstav is appropriate here.
According to the Swedish Royal Academy's Dictionary (http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/), Svärdstav has two meanings:
Loosely translated:
1) Under copper and early bronze age weapon with a dagger / sword shaped blade, mounted at a right angle on a staff about 1.5 meters long.
2) hollow cane containing a hidden sword.
The first definition could possibly be a Glaive, but the sentence looks romanticized and the description in the Dictionary does not match the design of a Glaive. The second definition is the one that i think most people would relate to as a svärdstav, and is absolutely not a Glaive.
I'm sure Glaives have been designed all over the world as some form of staff-mounted blade, but I don't understand why the Swedish version (if it indeed could be call a svärdstav) would deserve a special mention.
I'm going to take out the entry about the Swedish weapon, If someone has a compelling argument against this, go ahead and put it back in and state your case.
Popoi 02:00, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Might make an interesting addition to Dagger-axe, the time period and description of the the first definition would be spot on, geography is another matter. KTo288 (talk) 10:11, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  svärdstav 

message: This article, possibly in its entirety, appears to be copy-pasted from Tools of War: History of Weapons in Medieval Times by Syed Ramsey
https://books.google.com/books?id=tko5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT85&lpg=PT85&dq=Champagne+saucer+glaive&source=bl&ots=q6cnlri1Ko&sig=gvmUxssuxa7F_Gw_dke8weCkO2k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih59yNl_3QAhVBNSYKHdg_AmYQ6AEIPDAI#v=onepage&q=Champagne%20saucer%20glaive&f=false
Leehach (talk) 07:19, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: It would be good to expand upon than.
They fall into group of folding throwers that consists of two (fictional) classes  (another class is folding shuriken). Premiered in the movie Krull, what originally meant a sword and became a polearm sometimes later, it represents a throwing blade that can be utilized as both a melee weapon and as a thrown weapon.  It is a multi-bladed throwing implement whose blades could be folded into itself in order to give it a smaller form factor, presumably for easier transportation. They also seem to have a boomerang-like ability to come back to their wielder.
Then it appeared in games, the first one being the video game adaptation of the movie itself, also titled Krull, launched in 1983 on the Atari 2600 platform. sharp frisbee. " In Old French, where the word glaive referred to most any kind of shafted weapon, the word carried a second meaning: it was used figuratively to describe the kind of destruction such a weapon imparts, specifically violent death. "   Most knowns examples are glaives from movies The Beastmaster (called caber or sth like that), Blade, Predator/Alien franchise. Setenzatsu (talk) 11:20, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  In fiction 

message: I came here from the wikipedia article on baphomet, which mentions that at least one historical image of baphomet shows him with a "glaive".  I wondered what a glaive was, and came here.  Noticed that the connection to Baphomet was missing, so I'm posting this on the chance that someone else thinks it should be included.2605:6000:6FC0:25:70F7:DBF:A3F2:E86D (talk) 04:20, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection to Baphomet 

message: It deserves  a section (at least to clear up possible confusion).  "It is a multi-bladed throwing implement whose blades could be folded into itself in order to give it a smaller form factor, presumably for easier transportation. They also seem to have a boomerang-like ability to come back to their wielder. " It is featured in at least 3 movies: The Beastmaster, Krull, Blade. In the Beastaster movie, the protagonist uses a throwing weapon called a "caber". Blade uses 2: Shredder and Cyclone. 31.217.23.106 (talk) 21:16, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:   Hollywood “glaive” 

message: The first drawing's text claims it illustrates several glaives. It. does. not. What it does illustrate is the blades (head) of some glaives. An analogy would be a drawing of the heads of six people with text claiming it illustrates people. Although it's worse in the case of glaives since the reader may not understand that their poles are not shown while I doubt anyone would believe that a head is a full person.174.130.71.156 (talk) 09:41, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First drawing 

message: When considering the mass and shape of a Roman Gladius/Glaive short sword it is quite possible that this sword was reforged into the Glave Polearm. In particular, a French Glave bears striking similarities. Has there been studies on the metallurgy of these Glave polearms? 204.144.215.204 (talk) 01:03, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where Roman Glaive short swords the first Glave pole arms?