Knives

Everybody had knives on them because they were bloody useful for all sorts of little work, crafts and eating.

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>>2774010
Everybody had one. It was just wise to have something on your person for defense, survival, and general purpose tasks

>>2774080
It still is, but it's been stigmatized somehow as carrying a weapon.
Which is ironic, considering all the situations a knife could be used in to harmlessly save a life.

>>2774010
In Anglo-Saxon times, all free men whether ceorl, thegn, gesith, ealdorman, or shire-reeve carried the seax on them. The Normans put an end to this because the Anglo-Saxons had a tendency to murder any French-speaking cunt in secret, which caused Guillaume le Batard to impose the murdrum fine on the shire district where the corpse was found.

The seax was a mark of being a non-slave in the English world; it was your everyday tool for tasks and to cut your meat as well as a weapon of last resort.

Our good'ole country boys in the south still carry knifes.

>>2774010
The concept of carrying at least a small folding pocket knife as a matter of course only really faded from the modern world in the past few decades.

Throughout history, the concept of carrying a utility blade was pan-universal. As >>2774037 mentions, for the longest time it was your go-to tool.

>>2774132
>Get a life, bin that knife!

>>2774163
Any recommendations of where to get a decent seax?

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>>2774163
I am going to want some documentation here. Even slaves carried small utility seax, though I am sure larger weapon styles are controlled.

>>2774523
Size, use, period, culture, style and budget? Seax means knife. They range from 1.5" blades tanged to an antler point, to 30 inch long short-swords. Mind that there is no shame in a cool display piece, if thats all you want.

>>2774608
Preferably earlier periods. Something of reasonable price. I would prefer something that could actually be used rather than just for display

>>2774132
Nobody really scrutinized for having a knife as a tool, the acceptance of the swiss army knife proves this, it's just that traditional knives have much less utility than dedicated multitools.

>>2774967
What is a "reasonable price" to you? What culture? What size? What uses do you expect to use it for?

This is not just a game of 20 questions. $200 is reasonable for a 12-14" long knife suitable for camping/hunting/gardening.

>>2774989
*nobody is
My bad.

>>2774991
200 is fine. Looking for Anglo-Saxon type. Or even old Germanic like cherusci and all that jazz.

>>2774967
Got you pham, in case you are euro based.
http://www.armabohemia.cz/Novestr/cutA.htm
their cutlery is nice and based on historic originals.

>>2775132
Thanks man

>>2774608
>Seax means knife
nobody likes a pendant, anon

>>2774132
Is there any evidence they're used as tools more often than as weapons, today? A baseball bat is sporting equipment but that doesn't mean carrying one around in public isn't suspicious.

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I live in rural Finland and people still do. Well, not everybody and not all the time, but it certainly isn't anyhow stigmatized.
It was more common when i was a kid and it was a norm not more than ~50 years ago.

>>2777477
I'm swiss, countryside pretty much anyone has some sort of knife on him all the time.

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>>2777501
>some sort of knife
I was talking about something like this hanging on their hips. As if i have any idea who has or doesn't have Victorinox or Leatherman in their pockets.