 The grip contains a Latin text saying ""Ydola vanurunt Martini cesa securi nemo deos credat qui sic fuerant ruicuri"" ("the pagan statues fall down, hit by St. Martin's axe.Let nobody believe that those are gods, who so easily fall down").Legend says that the axe belonged to St. Martin, and was used to hit the devil and to destroy the heathen temples and statues.