Morning star

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

A morning star (German: Morgenstern) is any of several medieval club-like weapons consisting of a shaft with an attached ball adorned with one or more spikes. Such weapons provided their wielders with a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound an enemy.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Morning star (weapon)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Wendelin Boeheim, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.