He was said to have taken this famed weapon in battle from a man named Hallgrímur, while on a Viking raid to the island of Eysýsla (Saaremaa in present-day Estonia). He was a skilled archer, and in close combat his weapon of choice was the atgeir, which scholars consider to have been a halberd or glaive of some sort.
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According to Njáls saga, he was a powerful, athletic man “capable of jumping his own height in full body armour, both back and front”. We carry all the popular tactical models including the Benelli M4, Benelli Supernova and Benelli Nova Tactical Shotguns.We also feature the full line of Benelli hunting shotguns including the Benelli Montefeltro, and the infamous Benelli Super Black Eagle 3. Gunnar was a great warrior - he is described as nearly invincible in combat. Impact Guns is the largest stocking dealer of Benelli in the Western United States. He features prominently in the first half of Njáls saga, which tells of the chain of events ultimately leading to his death in battle. Benelli’s previous shotguns, the M1, M2, and M3, were inertia-operated. Marines wanted a shotgun that could reliably function and work with various optics and attachments. Benelli built the M1014 from the ground up to meet the Marine Corps requirements. He lived in Hlíðarendi in Fljótshlíð and is probably better known as Gunnar of Hlíðarendi (Old Norse: Gunnarr á Hlíðarenda). The M1014 is a pure combat shotgun designed for fighting in close quarter’s situations. Mythology: Gunnar Hámundarson was a 10th century Icelandic chieftain. Later the word was used for typical European halberds, and even later multipurpose staves with spearheads were called atgeirsstafir. Another view is that the term had no association with a specific weapon until it is used as an anachronism in saga literature to lend weight to accounts of special weapons. It is usually translated in English as “halberd”, but most likely closer resembled a bill or glaive during the Viking age.
We call our Benelli M2 3 Gun Shotgun – Atgeir.ĭescription: An atgeir, sometimes called a “mail-piercer” or “hewing-spear,” was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. This combination of parts and services just works. The Atgeir is the culmination of 5 years of modifying shotguns.
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