However, a good sword blow arriving in exactly perpendicular angle to the surface could cut through the links ; when the mail was not riveted, a well placed thrust from a spear or thin sword could penetrate, and a pollaxe or halberd blow could break through the armour.

However, many units retained cuirasses and helmets for their protective value against sword and bayonet strikes and the morale boost these provide to the wearers.

However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök.

The blade was around 18 inches ( 55 cm ) long, on the end of a pole 6 or 7 feet ( 180 – 210 cm ) long However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, both the blade and shaft varying in length.

However, during the Joseon dynasty, a variety of swords were used uniformly by Korean soldiers, including but not limited to the hwando ( single edged sabre ), Hwandudaedo, Jedok geom ( literally, the " Admiral's " sword ), and the yedo.

However the native types of blade known as kris, parang, klewang and golok are popular to be used as weapon rather than sword.

However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.

However, the Golden Gate was only constructed in 1037 and the sword is actually dated to the late 12th or 13th century.

However, the enemy's overwhelming numbers rendered resistance hopeless, and after a ten-day siege the city was taken and most of the defenders put to the sword.

However, the celebrated American sword and sorcery author Fritz Leiber replied in the journal Ancalagon ( 6 April 1961 ) suggesting " sword-and-sorcery as a good popular catchphrase for the field ".

However, sword and sorcery's immediate progenitors are the swashbuckling tales of Alexandre Dumas, père ( The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ), etc.

However, he is warned that the Force is a double edged sword ; its dark side is seductive and could corrupt him into an agent of evil if he gives into his anger and aggression.

However, the sword was drawn as Frank Sinatra singing " Witchcraft ", a wordplay of the name of the sword.

In the Epistles of Wisdom, Hamza ibn -' Ali ibn-Ahmad warns Ad-Darazi, saying, “ Faith does not need a sword to aid it .” However, Ad-Darazi refused Hamza ’ s threats and continued to challenge the Imam.

However, in 1745, a cashiered British officer could have his sword broken over his head, among other indignities inflicted on him.

However, U. S. National Park Service historian Jerome Green, in his 2005 history of the siege, The Guns of Independence, concurs with the 1881 centennial account by Johnston, noting simply that when Brigadier General O ' Hara presented the sword to Major General Lincoln, " he held it for a moment and immediately returned it to O ' Hara.

However, Musashi states within the volume that one should train with a long sword in each hand, thereby training the body and improving one's ability to use two blades simultaneously, though the aim of this was only for training purposes and wasn't meant to be a viable fighting style.

However, you can become a master of strategy by training alone with a sword, so that you can understand the enemy's stratagems, his strength and resources, and come to appreciate how to apply strategy to beat ten thousand enemies.

However, although apprenticed to Soko in the military arts, Asano showed a marked lack of samurai spirit as well as a lack of sword skill in his attack on Kira.

However, Staurakios was paralyzed by a sword wound near his neck, and was saved by the Imperial guard which retreated from the battlefield towards the safety of Adrianople.

However, if the sword is tempered to a springy hardness, it will be more likely to return to its original shape.

However, a legend claims that during the Bumps in that year, the rowers of Trinity's arch-rivals, St John's College, attached a sword to the front of one of their boats such that if they successfully bumped the boat in front ( which turned out to be one of Second Trinity's ), it would be holed and sink.

However, Pitt's pleasure over this was tempered by the subsequent news of a significant British defeat at Battle of Carillon.

However, Fiske's racism was tempered by commitment to African-American causes.

However, it is also known that the very first BARs delivered had improperly tempered recoil springs and had these guns been prematurely introduced during the summer of 1918, their employment may also have been problematic.

However, by 2005 this surge was tempered as some major events were either postponed for a year or cancelled permanently.

However, as time passed, expectations became tempered ; " Fully Automatic High Quality Translation " was not a reasonably attainable goal.

However, this was tempered by the deep-seated antagonism towards the occupying government forces.

However, traditional African tunings use notes that do not lie on the grid of the western tempered scale, and traditional kalimba note layouts are often idiosyncratic, sometimes with adjacent tines making part of a scale, but then an odd note thrown in that defies the pattern.

However, this was tempered by the fact that longstanding club GM Andy Costigan was stepping aside from his role, which he had filled since the clubs inception, due to pressures in his personal life

However, several authors found counter-examples for anisotropic groups where the component at infinity was not tempered.

However, Ong later tempered his praise, by describing McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy as " a racy survey, indifferent to some scholarly detail, but uniquely valuable in suggesting the sweep and depth of the cultural and psychological changes entailed in the passage from illiteracy to print and beyond.

However, he also believes that the satire against this man is tempered with compassion.

However on July 18, 2011, during the lead-up to the October 6 provincial election, Hudak tempered this claim, stating that he “ may have ” signed petitions calling for an end to abortion funding.

However, this achievement was tempered by the fact that their Merseyside rivals Everton won the 1962-63 league championship.

However, rather than risk damaging the doctor-patient relationship, when GPs chose, despite their scepticism, and tempered by an element of awareness of the limitations of modern medicine, to negotiate mutually acceptable ground with patients and with patients ' beliefs.

However, his outstanding performance at this tournament in Mexico was tempered by his penalty miss against France in the memorable quarter-final in Guadalajara.

However, this was tempered by an awareness of the military threat from the resurgent Germany, of which he warned J. C. Davidson.

" However, later postliberals have qualified this aversion, and have seriously tempered its initial concerns over both apologetics and metaphysics ( e. g., Paul Griffiths, An Apology for Apologetics, and Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe ).

However, his righteousness was tempered by mercy and he thus kept the affair private.

However this disappointment was tempered slightly by the R. F. U. 's decision to expand the entry to the following season's National Cup, now to be called the Pilkington Cup, meaning that Leighton would be included as East Midlands Cup Runners-Up.

However, this success was tempered by criticism of titles shipping late, something which began to affect its titles more and more.

However, profits were tempered by the temperature of the underground workings.