Viking Battle Axe Low-poly 3D model

Battle axes were very common in Europe in the Migration Period and the subsequent Viking Age, and they famously figure on the 11th-century Bayeaux Tapestry, which depicts Norman mounted knights pitted against Anglo-Saxon infantrymen. They continued to be employed throughout the rest of the Middle Ages, with significant combatants being noted axe wielders in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.

King Stephen of England famously used a Danish axe at the Battle of Lincoln 1141. One account says that he used it after his sword broke.[3] Another says he used his sword only after his axe broke.

Richard the Lionheart was often recorded in Victorian times wielding a large war axe, though references are sometimes wildly exaggerated as befitted a national hero: Long and long after he was quiet in his grave, his terrible battle-axe, with twenty English pounds of English steel in its mighty head... – A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Richard is, however, recorded as using a Danish Axe at the relief of Jaffa.[6] Geoffrey de Lusignan is another famous crusader associated with the axe.