The first Chinese sources that mention the jian date to the 7th century BCE during the Spring and Autumn Period ; one of the earliest specimens being the Sword of Goujian.

* Sword of Goujian

It was found on several artifacts including the Spear of Fuchai, and Sword of Goujian.

Examples include the extremely well preserved Sword of Goujian and sword of King Zhougou ( 州勾王 ).

* Sword of Goujian

* Sword of Goujian

Image: Bukharin Dzerjinsky. jpg | Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, as the Sword of Revolution, 1925

Medals worn ( from wearer's right to left, top row: Order of Glory ( Ottoman Empire ) | Nichan Iftikhar ( Ottoman ); Order of the Tower and Sword ( Portugal ); Order of the Dannebrog ( Denmark ); Orders, decorations, and medals of Imperial Germany | Gold Medal of Art and Science ( Württemberg ); Gold Medal of Science ( Austria ); Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( Italy ).

File: Koshiate ( Sword Hangers ). png | Various types of " koshiate ", a device used to carry a sword in the tachi style ( cutting edge down ).

File: 38-svaghi, lotta, Taccuino Sanitatis, Casanatense 4182 .. jpg | Sword and buckler combat, plate from the Tacuinum Sanitatis illustrated in Lombardy, ca.

File: Joan of Arc by Rossetti. jpg | Joan of Arc kissing the " Sword of Liberation ;" painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863

In Richard Westall's Sword of Damocles, 1812, the boys of Cicero's anecdote have been changed to maidens for a neoclassicism | neoclassical patron, Thomas Hope ( 1769-1831 ) | Thomas Hope.

An early Pave Sword laser pod on a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II | F-4D during the Vietnam War, 1971.

Image: Naritasan-Shinshouji-dragon-sword. JPG | Sword & dragon

The Khattak Dance, a swift martial arts Sword dance | sword-dance performed by Pashtuns in Pakistan's Northern Areas

Image: SchwerttanzTraunsteinSchwertertanzsworddance. jpg | Traunstein Sword Dance ( Germany, Bavaria )

Image: Oni Kenbai 1, Kitakami, Iwate. jpg | Devils Sword Dance of Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

| Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice

File: Joan of Arc by Rossetti. jpg | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Joan of Arc kissing the Sword of Liberation

File: KofunSwordHilts. jpg | Sword hilts, end of the Kofun period, Japan, 6th century.

Ash LongswordAsh Arming Sword WasterHans Talhoffer | Talhoffer's Fechtbuch ( 1467 ), Plate 25.

Image: Crown, Sword and Globus Cruciger of Hungary2. jpg | Holy Crown, Sword and Globus Cruciger of Hungary.

File: Korea-Proto. 3. Kingdoms-Swords-01. jpg | Sword, Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea period.

Sword fern habitat, near Lake Quinault, Washington ( U. S. state ) | Washington

" s: The Sword Speech | Meagher of the Sword "

Empire of Japan | Japanese Type 30 bayonet ( made between 1894 and 1945 ), an example of a straight-edged sword bayonet. Sword bayonets originated for use with muzzle loading rifles.

Sword blades longer than were rare and not practical until the late Bronze Age because at longer lengths, the tensile strength of bronze starts to decrease radically, and consequently longer blades would bend easily.

Sword production in China is attested from the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty.

* The Bronze Sword ( 1965 ) ( novel )

Sword production in China is attested from the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty, from roughly 1200 BC.

* From Rapier to Langsax: Sword Structure in the British Isles in the Bronze and Iron Ages by Niko Silvester ( 1995 )

One of the most famous artifacts found from that age in Veliki Mošunj, is a " Big Bronze Sword ", uniquely crafted.

* In manga, Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King, Ryu possesses a wooden sword and uses it as his main weapon, and for that reason he is also known as Bokuto no Ryu ( Wooden Sword Ryu ).

During this stage a dispute occurred between ad-Darazi and Hamza bin Ali mainly concerning ad-Darazi's ghuluww ( Arabic, " exaggeration "), which refers to the belief that God was incarnated in human beings, especially ' Ali and his descendants, including Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah who was the current Caliph, and ad-Darazi naming himself " The Sword of the Faith " which led Hamza to write an epistle refuting the need for the sword to spread the faith and several epistles refuting the beliefs of the ghulat.

The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.

* Sword of Attila ( legendary sword of Attila the Hun )

* The Singing Sword ( fictional sword )

Odachi means " Great Sword ", and Nodachi translates to " Field sword ".

In an embarrassing incident at the 1943 Tehran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the " Sword of Stalingrad " from Winston Churchill, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from its scabbard onto his toes in the presence of the Big Three wartime leaders.

The Sword of Osman () was an important sword of state used during the coronation ceremony of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire.

* Sword belt: A sword belt is a belt with an attachment for the sword's scabbard, used to carry it when not in use.

Buzz Blobs cannot be defeated outright by swords, with the exception of the Golden Sword, requiring the use of various ranged weapons, which can either defeat them instantly or stun them, leaving them vulnerable to sword strikes.

Before the Tripartite Dinner Meeting of November 29, 1943 at the Tehran Conference, Churchill presented Stalin with a specially commissioned ceremonial sword ( the " Sword of Stalingrad ", made in Sheffield ) commemorating the victory in the battle of Stalingrad, as a gift from King George VI to the citizens of Stalingrad and the people of the Soviet Union.

The crown jewels of the Kingdom of Man consist of a ceremonial sword known as the Manx Sword of State.

The Sword of State is carried by the sword bearer before the Queens personal representative to the Isle of Man, the Lieutenant Governor, at each meeting of Tynwald day and dates from not later than the 12th Century.

* The Abingdon Sword, an Anglo-Saxon sword found at Abingdon south of Oxford

After a solemn ceremony in Madrid, Charles was given the épée d ' or ( Sword of Gold ) by his father ; the sword had been given to Philip V of Spain by his grandfather Louis XIV of France before his departure to Spain in 1700.

This sword from the dragon's tail, the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi (" Sword of the Gathering Clouds of Heaven ") or the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (" Grasscutter Sword "), was presented by Susanoo to Amaterasu as a reconciliation gift.

In September 1270 he visited the village Miholjanec, where was discovered an unknown ancient castle and a sword, this sword he got as a gift, in which he and his priests acknowledged the " Holy War Sword of the Scythians " and he saw that he was determined to master the world.

The only thing that can defeat him is the Master Sword, a sword forged to combat evil.

Entrusted with the Sword of Wind, he seeks to aid Mesia, another survivor from his time, and to combine the four elemental Swords of Wind, Fire, Water, and Thunder into the legendary sword, Crystalis.

The elemental nature of each sword also provides a necessary means of traversing otherwise impassable obstacles ; certain barriers succumb to the power blasts of individual swords, and the Sword of Water creates a bridge of ice across some shallow, narrow sections of rivers., also some enemies are immune to certain types of elements and must be killed using their opposite element ( Ice creatures are weak against fire ).