If it’s real, it’s probably very, very heavy.
I’m plumb out of shape. I could not brandish, cut or thrust the weapon with effective skill.
Stopping to use my albuterol inhaler would diminish my statement.
That was my first thought as well. I would need much stronger wrists and forearms to make that blade go snicker-snack.
Wielding it whilst on horseback would lop off heads all over the place.
If the tiles in the background are 12 x 12 then I estimate the total length to be a little under 3 feet.
I think I went to school with Al...
Yeah, most of the ancient world’s fighters were bivocational, that is, they picked up whatever they had and marched out to battle, or defended the town (walls or no). Most of those weapons were probably of convenience, rather than being something made for combat as this surely was.
Tools of all kinds, even a length of rope, whatever was available, would be used, and generally they were passed down the generations until they broke or were otherwise superseded. Or, y’know, the guy died and his side lost.