Daggert

Fairbairn-Sykes commandodolk, en moderne daggert.

En daggert er en kniv med en meget skarp spids, der er beregnet som stikvåben.[1][2] Daggerter går tilbage i forhistorisk tid og har været anvendt til nærkamp til i dag.[3] Mange gamle kulturer benyttede dekorerede daggerter til rituelle og cerimonielle formål. Dens særlige form og brug har gjort daggerten til en ikon og et symbol.

Replikaer af tre af middelalderens daggerttyper. Fra venstre mod højre: nyredolk (en kopi fra Wallace Collection A732 af Arms & Armor, US), en typisk sen rondeldaggert (af English Cutler, UK) og tveægget daggert udført som et sværd rekonstrueret af et fund fra 1300-tallet, der findes på Museum of London.

Ordet daggert har været brugt om meget forskellige stikvåben som knive med én skærende æg som den europæiske rondeldaggert eller den persiske pesh-kabz. I nogle tilfælde har den ingen æg som i stiletknive, der blev benyttet i renæssancen. I løbet af de seneste 100 år har myndigheder anerkendt daggerten som et kort blad med en skarp tilspidset spids, en ryg der sidder i midten, eller en konkav rille og normalt to ægge i klingens fulde længden eller størstedelen af den.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

De fleste daggerter har en hel parerstang, der forhindrer at hånden glider ned over den skarpe klinge. Et andet karakteristisk træk ved moderne daggerter er, at de er beregnet til at holdes horisontalt. Det gør det muligt at hugge både til højre og venstre og at stikke med våbnet.[5] Den tveæggede klinge gør det muligt at skære med både forhånd- og baghåndsgreb, og spidsen gør kniven til et effektivt stikvåben.[5][10] Denne alsidighed adskiller den moderne daggert fra mere specialiserede stikvåben som stiletknive.[10][11]

Se også

Referencer

  1. ^ State v. Martin, 633 S.W.2d 80 (Mo. 1982).
  2. ^ California Penal Code 12020(a)(24): "dagger" means a knife or other instrument with or without a handguard that is capable of ready use as a stabbing weapon that may inflict great bodily injury or death. The State of California and other jurisdictions have seized upon the popular-use definition of a dagger to classify items ranging from a pointed kitchen knife to a tent stake as a 'dagger' under the law.
  3. ^ Burton, Walter E., Knives For Fighting Men, Popular Science, July 1944, Vol. 145 No. 1, p. 150: The dagger is classified as a type of fighting knife, while a combat knife is a knife specifically designed for military use, and is thus only certain types of daggers designed for military use are considered to be combat knives. Thus, an ordinary dagger designed for civilian sale and use is only a fighting knife, while the U.S. Army M3 trench knife is both a combat knife and a fighting knife.
  4. ^ Emerson, Robert L., Legal Medicine and Toxicology, New York: D. Appleton & Co. (1909), p. 80
  5. ^ a b c Cassidy, William L., The Complete Book Of Knife Fighting, ISBN 0-87364-029-2, ISBN 978-0-87364-029-9 (1997), pp. 9–18, 27–36
  6. ^ Draper, Frank W., A Text-book of Legal Medicine, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders & Co. (1905), pp. 341–343
  7. ^ Gross, Hans, Criminal Investigation: A Practical Textbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, London: Sweet & Maxwell (1949), p. 185
  8. ^ Harding, David, and Cann, Jefferson (eds.), Weapons: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to 2000 A.D., The Diagram Visual Group, New York: St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-03950-6, ISBN 978-0-312-03950-9 (1990), pp. 32–33
  9. ^ Goddard, Wayne, The Wonder of Knifemaking, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, ISBN 1-4402-1684-3, ISBN 978-1-4402-1684-8 (2011), pp. 50, 131–132
  10. ^ a b The New Werner Twentieth Century edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 6, Akron, OH: The Werner Co. (1907), p. 669
  11. ^ Dagger Law & Legal Definition

Litteratur

  • Capwell, Dr. Tobias. The World Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers, and Bayonets. Hermes House. Leicestershire. 2011..
  • Dean, Bashford. Catalogue of European Daggers 1300–1800. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. 1929.
  • Edge, David and Paddock, John Miles. Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight - An Illustrated History of Weapons in the Middle Ages. Crescent Books. New York. 1988.
  • Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril John Gadd, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond. The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. 1970. (ISBN 0-521-07051-1)
  • Peterson, Harold L. Daggers & Fighting Knives of the Western World. Bonanza Books. New York. 1970.
  • Thompson, Logan. Daggers and Bayonets - A History. Paladin Press. Boulder. 1999.
  • Vail, Jason. Medieval and Renaissance Dagger Combat. Paladin Press. Boulder. 2006.

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