I've on occation encountered people with a false impression on the weight of weastern medieval swords. I therefore would like to help killing that myth by posting a little part of the work of Jan Petersen; a professor that have studied norwegian vikingswords. Here's what he have to say on one of the heaviest (and oldes) types of vikingswords (Type C): "Just as with the previous type, this type makes a heavy and massive impression. The hilts, similar to both of the previous types, are completely massive. The pommel or the upper hilt can reach a height of up to 6.4 cm. These swords are among the heaviest of all the swords from the Viking Age. I have thus weighed a sword here that weighed 1.896 kg. [(from] Vik, Nes, Hallingdal), making it the heaviest of the swords that I have tested." Any other contributions on actual weight of weastern swords?
well heres an article on sword weights. http://www.ejmas.com/jwma/articles/2005/jwmaart_dawson_0205.htm there are three tables ploting out sword weights for single, hand and half and two handed swords towards the bottom. 1.896 would be what about 2 pounds. Sounds about right.
