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the norse were giants in their time, but that aint saying a lot- from graves and from the ships we have found, as well as from the size of certain artifacts they were still considerably smaller than us..... and that of course goes for hand size as well- dont get me wrong though, some of the problem can be chalked up to people trying to use a weapon the wrong way- a viking sword is not a rapier, and cannot used as such- and a lot of people start their sword use carear with fencing and kendo- a good basis, and it works for a lot of different weapons ( i.e. if you can fence and are versed in kendo you can easily figgure out a lot of different weapons in a short time)
but some weapons- in particular viking swords and the roman gladius come to mind- just dont work as intuitively- this tends to skew a lot of peoples view on balance and grip imho
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