Welsh hook
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A Welsh hook is a type of polearm. A halberd-like weapon with a hook on the back, and gained it name due to its prevalence among the Welsh soldiers during the medieval wars against the English.[1] It appears to have been derived from an agricultural implement known as a forest-bill (or a long hedging-bill), with the addition of a hook on the back and a spike on the front.[2]
In literature
- "That no man presume to wear any weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills", ("The History of Sir John Oldcastle", Folio 3, 1664, 60).[3]
- Falstaff "My own knee? ... and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook,—What, a plague, call you him?", (Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1, 290).[3]
Notes
- ↑ Lublin 2013, p. 115.
- ↑ Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, pp. 286–287.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, p. 286.
References
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