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The Wallace Sword (circa 13th century AD) , a 5.95 pound (2.70 kg), 5 feet 4 inch (163 cm) long two-handed sword allegedly used by Scottish knight William Wallace during the First War of Scottish Inde (media.kbin.social)
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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Swords are much lighter than people think. Most were around 1-2kgs, and can still be quite the workout on your arm. 10s of kilos would have been absolutely exhausting, and probably pretty difficult to balance. That'd be a lot of weight suddenly pulling your center of gravity wherever you swung it.