The curious case of the weapon that didn't exist
what a hyperbole. he picks pics of few flails made for hanging on the wall (like many swords were made, some of them as pure decorations and would break in real fight) and hence all in the world are probably fake.<p>I&#x27;ve visited countless museums&#x2F;castles in western, central and eastern europe, most of them if not all had some flails shown. no decorations on them, just varied length of spikes and size of the head ball. chains looked rigid enough to last many battles, probably much longer than bearer would survive.<p>somewhere I read that flail was very hard to block if used by skilled warrior - the chain would go around any blades, axes and shields and just hit the body. of course in unskilled hands, I can imagine it can easily harm&#x2F;kill the bearer, compared to say a plain good old sword.