Welsh hook

A Welsh hook is a type of polearm, a halberd-like weapon with a hook on the back, and gained its name due to its prevalence among the Welsh soldiers during the medieval wars against the English.^[1] It closely related to the agricultural implement known as a bill and is commonly classified as a type of poleaxe.^[2]

In literature

"That no man presume to wear any weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills" ("The History of Sir John Oldcastle", Folio 3, 1664, 60).^[3]
Falstaff: "My own knee? ... and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook,—What, a plague, call you him?" (Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1, 290).^[3]

Notes

^ Lublin 2013, p. 115.
^ Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, pp. 286–287.
^ ^a ^b Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, p. 286.

References

Lublin, Dr Robert I (2013), Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture, Ashgate Publishing, p. 115, ISBN 9781409479048
Shakespeare, William; Rowe, Nicholas; et al. (1821), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I, F. C. and J. Rivington, pp. 286–287

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[FOOTNOTELublin2013115-1] Lublin 2013, p. 115.

[FOOTNOTEShakespeareRowe1821286–287-2] Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, pp. 286–287.

[FOOTNOTEShakespeareRowe1821286-3] Shakespeare & Rowe 1821, p. 286.

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