WALES: Sword a timely find for joust.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: August 11, 2006 | Copyright information

A LINK to the medieval past was found at a North Wales castle just days before its first joust in more than 500 years.

A Zweihander double-handed sword hangs at Chirk Castle's Cromwell Hall, which would have been used in medieval combat.

Tomorrow and Sunday a joust will take place there for the first time in more than half a millennium.

Chirk Castle house manager David Burton said: "When the medieval joust was first ment...

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