Bronze? Heavy AF. You have to have muscles to be waving that thing around for any amount of time. So mostly ornamental? I don’t have a clear picture of which periods kings were actually active in combat. Some periods and places, it seems common; others, they were more rear field commanders.

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Probably mostly ornamental.

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