Polearms!
The knowledge on polearms, even just their names, is rather muddled for a few reasons. They were easy to make compared to most weapons, and so there was A) a huge amount of variation, B) not a lot of recording going on, and C) creation across language borders. Further obfuscation comes from Victorian scholars, who didn’t bother properly translating foreign texts and used very different names as if they were interchangeable.
(via fyeahswords)
