Modified Medieval Era Dagger Identification

[Shakethetrees]

Originally Posted by RobertGuy

Boar spear?

That would be a possibility, but a boar spear usually has a sharpened blade and a slot through which a peg is inserted. A spike won't do enough damage to stop a boar in its tracks. Unless something vital is pierced, you'll have one angry, pissed off critter charging you, and you won't get a second chance at it.

But, I think a lot of weapons that do not easily fit into any particular category comfortably are made in an ad hoc manner by local blacksmiths responding to a particular need, materials availability, or specific customer request.

Hard to pin down any date/place of manufacture, but these have always been fascinating to me.

[Helleri]

Looks to be some fashion of pike. Though I've not seen anything quite like that. The nearest equivalent that comes to my mind is an awl pike/Ahlspiess (Swiss). But awl pikes have disc guards. Pikes with symmetrical additional spikes are invariably up-swept or up-curved to my knowledge. The same goes for the closely related military fork. So I would say it is a pike. But beyond that it's hard for me to say anything more specific (even hard to say that it is a weapon). It does look cheaply made. So it could just be someones experiment. But new variations of pikes, military forks, halberds, and polearms in general pop up all the time. So much so that every new one makes things harder to categorize.