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品名（中）	Halberd公司
品名（英）	Halberd
入馆年号	1914年，14.25.51
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1450 - 公元 1500
创作地区	原产国: 德国（Country of Origin: Germany）
分类	带柄武器（Shafted Weapons）
尺寸	长 81 3/8 英寸 (206.6 厘米); 长 of head 16 英寸 (40.6 厘米); 宽 8 3/4 英寸 (22.2 厘米); 重 4 磅. 12 盎司 (2154.6 g)
介绍（中）	这种戟的头部包含三个基本元素：斧头状的刀刃、顶端的尖刺和喙。斧刃，也就是武器的名字（源自德语Halm、长轴和Barte，斧头）用于砍击，尖刺用于刺击，喙用于刺穿盔甲（刀刃对其毫无用处），或将骑士从马鞍上拉下来戟是步兵的武器，在德国和瑞士特别流行。这是徒步人能使用的最通用的武器；尽管长矛是15世纪和16世纪战斗中非常重要的步兵方阵的主要武器，但瑞士的Reisläufer和德国的Landsknecht（雇佣军）都更喜欢戟。它的优点是，它可以在紧急情况下由一个人使用，例如在觅食或掠夺突袭中遭到伏击时，而12英尺长的长矛只供密集编队的士兵使用，对一个人来说更像是一种障碍在戟的正式发展过程中，如本例所示，指向后部的偏置插座表示十六世纪中叶之前的日期。
介绍（英）	The head of this halberd incorporates three basic elements: an axe-like blade, an apical spike, and a beak. The axe blade, which gives the weapon its name (derived from the German Halm, long shaft, and Barte, axe) was used for hacking, the spike for thrusting, and the beak either for piercing a plate of armor (against which the cutting edge would have been useless), or for pulling a knight from his saddle. The halberd was a foot-soldier's weapon particularly popular in Germany and Switzerland. It was the most versatile of shafted weapons a man on foot could use; though the pike was the main weapon for the massed squares of foot soldiers so important in fifteenth- and sixteenth- century battles, the halberd was preferred both by Swiss Reisläufer and German Landsknecht (mercenaries). It had the advantage that it could be used in a pinch by a single man, such as when ambushed on a foraging or plundering raid, while a twelve-foot-long pike was of use only by soldiers in massed formation, and for a single man was more of a hindrance. In the formal development of the halberd, the offset socket pointing to the rear, as in this example, indicates a date before the middle of the sixteenth century.