types of swords

This is a list of sword types found through history all around the world.

Sword types sorted by countries of origin

Many swords in mythology, literature and history are named by their wielders or by the person who makes them.

Caliburn - King Arthur's sword, probably made by Merlin but certainly put by him into a stone in a churchyard to test who the rightful king is. This sword was broken in a fight with King Pellinore (according to Mallory).
Excalibur - King Arthur's sword, given to him by the Lady of the Lake after Caliburn was broken in a fight with King Pellinore; the sword itself as well as the scabbard was magical.
Galatine - The sword of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian legends.
Secace - The sword of Sir Launcelot in the Arthurian legends.
Kusanagi (Grasscutter) - A sword of equivalent importance to Japan as the Excalibur is to England
Thul fiqar - The legendary two-tipped sword of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib
Tizona - the sword of El Cid.
Szczerbiec - The sword of Polish kings
Hrunting - Unferth, associate of Beowulf
Gram (in the Volsung Saga) or Balmung (sometimes in later traditions) - Sigurd
Tyrfing - a cursed sword from the Elder Edda
Durandal - the sword that belonged to Roland, a hero of the medieval French epic "The Song of Roland", supposedly once belonged to Hector of Troy
Joyeuse - the sword of Charlemagne (Charles the Great), the famed medieval king of the Franks and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Grus- the historical sword of Boleslaw Krzywousty (Boleslaus the Wrymouthed), medieval prince of Poland
Caladbolg - The sword used by the hero Cuchulain in the Irish epic the Tin B Cuailnge.

Glamdring (Foe-hammer) - Originally the sword of Turgon, King of Gondolin in the Silmarillion, then the sword of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.
Narsil (Sun and Moon) (later Andril, Flame of the West) - The sword of Elendil, and later Aragorn in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Sting - The Elven short-sword wielded by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit and Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings.
Stormbringer - The black sword used by Elric, a character invented by Michael Moorcock.
Dyrnwyn - The legendary sword used by Gwydion in the Prydain stories by Lloyd Alexander.
Catclaw - The sword used by The Gray Mouser in a series of stories by Fritz Leiber.
Green Destiny Sword - The sword used by Li Mu Bai in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Vorpal Sword - The sword mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Jabberwocky" and now a well-known blade in Dungeons & Dragons
Buster Sword - The oversized sword belonging to the videogame character Cloud Strife.
Masamune - Named after a Japanese swordsmith. Also used throughout the Final Fantasy series.

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