Comments on: My Favorite Glaive. http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/ A blog about Dark, Unique and Beautiful Weaponry. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe the Rat http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Joe the Rat Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:46:54 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-454 I tend to think of this Baroque badboy as the original Glaive - the first flying-spinny-bladed death weapon Hollywood called a 'Glaive'. Which makes the earlier (by one year) Beastmaster scissor-hatchet the Ur-Glaive. Near-practicality aside, be glad this came along - otherwise you'd have been talking about Blade's Shredder Caber. I tend to think of this Baroque badboy as the original Glaive – the first flying-spinny-bladed death weapon Hollywood called a ‘Glaive’. Which makes the earlier (by one year) Beastmaster scissor-hatchet the Ur-Glaive. Near-practicality aside, be glad this came along – otherwise you’d have been talking about Blade’s Shredder Caber.

]]> By: phyreblade http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-453 phyreblade Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:42:20 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-453 LOL why thank ye, thank ye very much!! :) LOL why thank ye, thank ye very much!! :)

]]> By: ChroniclerLoki http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-452 ChroniclerLoki Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:05:45 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-452 Lol, archery is one of my favorite topics. I'd love to get back into it. Phyreblade, I found your blog by accident while searching the topic of Glaives actually :). And I find your ability to make up new words on the go, if not the words themselves very amusing man. Lol, archery is one of my favorite topics. I’d love to get back into it. Phyreblade, I found your blog by accident while searching the topic of Glaives actually :) . And I find your ability to make up new words on the go, if not the words themselves very amusing man.

]]> By: phyreblade http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-451 phyreblade Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:52:04 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-451 This blog is syndicated by Google news? Huh! Well that's news to me... :) Honestly, I have no idea how anybody picks this blog up anymore... Maybe a wordpress.com thing... I dunno. I just started this blog to write about something I enjoy... It's cool to see that people are enjoying it too though... Thanks! Archery greats... Well we'll see... I don't have any expansive experience in that area, apart from a little personal archery experience and some interesting historic tidbits, but I'll keep it in mind for a future topic... Thanks! This blog is syndicated by Google news? Huh! Well that’s news to me… :) Honestly, I have no idea how anybody picks this blog up anymore… Maybe a wordpress.com thing… I dunno.

I just started this blog to write about something I enjoy… It’s cool to see that people are enjoying it too though… Thanks!

Archery greats… Well we’ll see… I don’t have any expansive experience in that area, apart from a little personal archery experience and some interesting historic tidbits, but I’ll keep it in mind for a future topic…

Thanks!

]]> By: KungFu http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-450 KungFu Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:12:36 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-450 Can I ask though - how did you get this picked up and into google news? Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created? Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success.. Archery greats you should write about next, my ex was an Archery champ! Can I ask though – how did you get this picked up and into google news?

Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?

Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..

Archery greats you should write about next, my ex was an Archery champ!

]]> By: phyreblade http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-449 phyreblade Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:56:58 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-449 OK then... Thanks for sharing... OK then… Thanks for sharing…

]]> By: Macdef1 http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Macdef1 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:55:01 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-437 I know this guy Ric who has a little sword. I know this guy Ric who has a little sword.

]]> By: Crosseyes http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Crosseyes Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:07:46 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-438 I dunno, this is all much too confusing for me *_* what with the dictionary, and hollywood, and... I think I'm going to take a nap now... Crosseyes X_X I dunno, this is all much too confusing for me *_*

what with the dictionary, and hollywood, and… I think I’m going to take a nap now…
Crosseyes
X_X

]]> By: Niccolo http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Niccolo Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:35:42 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-448 So... is this desire to burn Hollywood normal, now? So… is this desire to burn Hollywood normal, now?

]]> By: phyreblade http://thedarkblade.com/my-favorite-glaive/comment-page-1/#comment-447 phyreblade Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:35:41 +0000 http://thedarkblade.com/2007/06/16/my-favorite-glaive/#comment-447 @Niccolo You are correct, these weapons are technically not "glaives", at least not in the medieval historic sense. If you look at my very first Glaive post, you'll see that i make the distinction... The term Glaive now has an additional meaning inferred upon it by hollywood, to describe a variety of multi bladed hand held throwing implement... @Crosseyes Actually, the Dictionary.com definition is a less commonly used reference. It is more commonly used to refer to the polearm. However the term has been appropriated by the movie industry to refer to weapons like these, perhaps because the earlier use of the word, whose root is in the latin Gladius, was a more poetic way of saying sword... I guess Hollywood figured that there was poetry in the idea of a spinning, flying, boomerang like blade, and decided to apply the term Glaive to them... @Niccolo
You are correct, these weapons are technically not “glaives”, at least not in the medieval historic sense. If you look at my very first Glaive post, you’ll see that i make the distinction…

The term Glaive now has an additional meaning inferred upon it by hollywood, to describe a variety of multi bladed hand held throwing implement…

@Crosseyes
Actually, the Dictionary.com definition is a less commonly used reference. It is more commonly used to refer to the polearm. However the term has been appropriated by the movie industry to refer to weapons like these, perhaps because the earlier use of the word, whose root is in the latin Gladius, was a more poetic way of saying sword…

I guess Hollywood figured that there was poetry in the idea of a spinning, flying, boomerang like blade, and decided to apply the term Glaive to them…

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