Two mounted knights in armor in a tournament duel with a hook.
Two mounted knights in armor in a tournament duel with a hook. Swords and lances (one broken) litter the ground, as one knight uses a long metal hook to snag his opponent's neck armor (gorge). Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796)
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