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.

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 sword tempered in this way can usually be resharpened many times, and, although the hardness will decrease with each sharpening, the reduction in hardness will usually not be noticeable until a large amount of steel has been removed.

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, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

However, the nonspecific staining by the Af in tumor sections was considered bright enough to be confused with the staining of small amounts of WTV antigen.

However, all admitted that the `` hindsight '' was not altogether lost.

However, she was able to relax and yield to the moment.

However, in this case the district manager was led to see the errors of his ways.

However, there was no real question of the justice of creating a strong Poland, both industrially and agriculturally, and one unplagued by large minorities of Germans or Russians.

However, the sovereign was not Hobbes' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin.

However, a similar privilege was not specifically provided in section 168 for a person acquiring emergency facilities.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

However, it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside, even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose.

However likely it was, Pauling said, he couldn't limit himself to it.

However, Haney knew it was not a dream.

However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, was retracted before the trial.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

( However, there is little evidence that the late Lumumba was a Communist.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

However Copperhead rhetoric argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification.

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.