Hey, friends! I'm gonna be putting together a mini sketchbook featuring named swords and their owners (i.e. Arthur and Excalibur). While I have a list, I'd LOVE recommendations, especially historical/cultural, but I'm open to fiction, too, especially public domain. 1/2
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https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Kring#:~:text=Kring%20was%20a%20magical%20sword,are%20set%20within%20its%20pommel.
Beowulf/Nagling
Roland/Durendal
El Cid/Tizona & Colada
Siegfried/Balmung
Ogier the Dane/Cortana
Oliver/Hautelclere
Prince Valiant/the Singing Sword (Bugs Bunny too)😉
This 15th century Frisian legendary warrior did actually exist and, presumably, his sword hangs in the Frisian museum.
(Michael Moorcock)
Valkyrie and Dragonfang
(Given to her by Doctor Strange - MARVEL)
Black Knight and the Ebony Blade (MARVEL)
Mordred and Clarent (kinda- it was Arthur's but he used it)
Amaterasu or Susano'o and Kusanagi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Swords
Would make for a cool Japanese cultural/semi-legendary option.
The black knight and the ebony blade
Cloud and the Buster sword
Aragorn and Anduril / Narsil
Durandel and Roland
Hrunting and Beowulf
Dōjigiri and Oda Nobunaga (or any of the 5 'Swords Under Heaven' really)
stretching the definition of 'sword' but the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and Guan Yu
Power Sword and Prince Adam (He-Man)
Zoe and Satan's Sword (Rachel Rising - a nod to fellow artist Terry Moore)
The Tri-blade Sword and Talon from the Greatest Fantasy movie ever (to be released in April 1982) The Sword and The Sorcerer
Outside of giant anime swords, probably the most impractical sword ever made.
Although a bit of an asterix on those since they name any swords they have that, rather than them being specific swords with specific names.
Charlemagne- Joyeuse
Lord of the Rings- every sword, dagger, and cheese knife
Prince Jen- the Thirsty Sword
Prince Gwydion- Dyrnwyn
Lone Wolf- the Sommerswerd
Galatine/Sir Gawain
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan_Jiang_and_Mo_Ye
https://www.nationalwallacemonument.com/2023/05/the-wallace-sword-returns-to-national-wallace-monument/
Arthur/Excalibur
Sigurd/Gram
El Cid/Tezona/Colada
Ali/Zlfiqar
Roland/Durendal
Lê Lợi/Thuận Thiên
Beowulf/Hrunting or Naegling
St George/Ascalon
Fergus/Kaladbold
I don't know enough Asian and South Asian folklore to have as many as I'd like (have to have a named owner/wielder)
@tadwilliams.bsky.social's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn from the Osten Ard novels
Song of Roland's Durendal
Lewis Carrol's Vorpal Sword
Fafhrd's Greywand
The Masamune katana
Ame-no-Habakiri, wielded by Susano-o
Asi, wielded by Rudra
It apparently survived long enough to be carried by Zhan Zhao in Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, & Yue Fei in popular folk tales
Liu Bang also has a mythical sword, the same one he used to kill the white snake in legend, which is called like three different names in different sources lol (赤霄, 断蛇, & 斩蛇)
Perseus’s sword Harpe (maybe not a proper name)?
Sasaki Kojiro and his unusually long sword, Drying Pole
Joan of Arc/Sword of St Catherine
https://www.themarysue.com/terry-pratchett-sword/
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Kring#:~:text=Kring%20was%20a%20magical%20sword,are%20set%20within%20its%20pommel.
Roy Hobbs and Wonderboy?
Homer and Wonderbat?
Amleth and Draugr
Sword of Athena and Wonder Woman
Buluc Chabtan and his Macuahuitl
Also this: https://youtu.be/6u8wBfDtZkE?si=vBO3Iulrd_eG2Vho
That should say Elric and Stormbringer
Not another sword in literature like Stormbringer, that for sure.
Who might very well be the namesake of Vergil's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI_FYdY2QBA
Fergus mac Róich / Caladcholg (Irish myth)
Nuada of the Silver Arm / Claíomh Solais the sword of light (Irish myth)
GOT!
https://www.ign.com/wikis/game-of-thrones/Named_Swords
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Gerlofs_Donia
Beowulf/Unferth
-The sword Ice from the ASoIaF novel series
-Beowulf's Nægling
-The three swords that were made for the coronation of Charles I in 1626. The Sword of Temporal Justice, the Sword of Spiritual Justice and the Sword of Mercy
-The French coronation sword Joyeuse