Weapons – Knives
Quiva
I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle
knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length,
double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point. I
acquired, I think, skill in its use. At forty feet I could strike a thrown
tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide
disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf.
Nomads of Gor, page 66-67
...the quiva itself is regarded, on the whole, as more of a
missile weapon than a hand knife... Nomads of Gor, page 124
Most quivas, incidentally, are wrought in the smithies of Ar. Nomads of Gor,
page 124
...in the saddle itself, on the right side, indicating the rider must be
right-handed, were the seven sheaths for the almost legendary quivas, the balanced
saddleknives of the prairie. Nomads of Gor, page 11
. . .the
seven sheaths for the almost legendary quivas, the balanced saddleknives of the prairie. It was said a youth of the Wagon
Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance
before their parents would consent to give him a name. Nomads of Gor, Page 11
. . .it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to
a daggerlike point. Nomads of Gor, Page 67
I did have a sword and I had also purchased a set of Tuchuk
quivas, their famed saddle knives. The set consists of seven knives, one for
each of the seven sheaths in the Tuchuk saddle. They are balanced for throwing.
Players of Gor, Page 178
I had not
thrown it hard enough, intentionally, to bring the point fully through the
body. It is not necessary. The cast, as recommended, had been easy and smooth.
The quiva itself, in its sharpness and weight, does the work.
Players of Gor, Page 187
Hook knife
Then the
large man with missing teeth seized Hup's hair and
pulled up the head, to expose the throat, holdingn in
his right hand, a small, thick, curved blade, the hook knife of Ar, used
sheathed in the sport of that name. . .” Assassin of Gor, Page 12
To
this belt there hung the sheath of a hook knife, which was buckled in the
sheath, the strap passing over the hilt. Assassin of Gor, Page 84
Both were stripped to the waist. The hair of both was
bound back with a band of cloth. Each carried, sheathed, a hook knife. The edges
of the sheath were coated with a bluish pigment. Assassin of Gor, page 86
Ho-Tu,
his hook knife dripping, a buckler on his left arm now stood beside us.
Assassin of Gor, Page 346
"When
you were going through our friends' pouches over there, did you find any small
knives, such as a hook knife or a shaving knife?" Renegades of Gor, Page
246
She
took Claudia's hair in her left hand and held the razor-sharp hook knife.
Assassin of Gor, Page 317
There were various matches in the pit of sand that evening. There was a
contest of sheathed hook knife, one of whips and another of spiked gauntlets. Assassin
of Gor, page 120
Killing knife
It was a throwing knife, of a sort used in Ar, much
smaller than the southern quiva, and tapered on only
one side. It was a knife designed for killing. Mixed with the blood and fluids
of the body there was a smear of white at the end of the steel, the softened
residue of a glaze of kanda paste, now melted by body
heat, which had coated the tip of the blade. On the
hilt of the dagger, curling about it, was the legend, 'I have sought him. I
have found him.' It was a killing knife. 'The Caste of
Assassins?' I had asked. 'Unlikely,' had said the Older Tarl, 'for Assassins are commonly too proud for poison.'
Assassin of Gor, page 42
It was a killing knife, short, well-balanced
for throwing.
Assassin of Gor, page 261
Sleen knife
I saw Sheera, standing knee
deep in the water, near the beach. She had now thrust her sleen knife into its
belt sheath. She was a strongly bodied girl. The sun made the chains and claws
at her throat gleam. 'Return again' she called, 'perhaps we will have more men
to sell you.' Hunters of Gor, page 32-33
The huntsman resheathed his sleen knife. Hunters of Gor, page 162
He drew out a
sleen knife. Slave Girl of Gor, page 188
I carried
only my sword, on its sheath, and a short sleen knife, balanced. Hunters of
Gor, page 266
She
fingered the hilt of the sleen knife. Hunters of Gor, page 133
I looked across to Menicius
of Port Kar. His eyes darted from mine. He bent over the neck of Quarrel. I saw
that He had been given another knife, a
In Mip’s hand I saw a small dagger, a throwing knife, of a sort manufactured
in Ar; it was smaller than the southern quiva; it
was tapered on only one side.
“It is an interesting knife,” I said.
“All Tarn Keepers carry a knife,” said Mip,
playing with the blade. Assassin of Gor, page 174
Turian Knife or dagger
It is not unusual to encounter a fellow with a
jacket of sleen fur, falling to his knees, sewn in the circle stitch of
Scagnar, who wears upon his forehead a silken jeadband of Ar. He might carry a double-edged ax, but
at his belt may hang a Turian dagger. Hunters of Gor, page 45
At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented,
twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a
knife. Marauders of Gor, page 156
Rence knife
One holds the stem of the plant in the left
hand and, with the right, with a rence knife, a small, curved, two-inch knife makes a diagonal upward stroke.” Raiders of Gor, page
27
Panga
. . .the
jungle is not a maze of impenetrable growth, which must be hacked through with
machete or panga. Explorers of Gor, page 313
The
results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack of meal and
vegetables. A length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree,
dyed red, a handful of colored,
wooden beads, and, most importantly, two pangas,
two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives. Explorers of Gor, page 287
The keen steel of our pangas smote
apart thick vines. Explorers of Gor, page 382
I seized up the panga
which had been carried by the beast I had slain. It was heavy. I must needs use two hands to wield it. Explorers of Gor, page 437
Red Hunters knives
The butcher knives are usually ground down
into a narrow, concave shape. They do not have the sturdiness for combat. They
are used, generally, for the swift acquisition of bloody trophies. Savages of
Gor, page 145
Imnak’s knife had a wooden handle, some
fourteen inches long. Its point was some three inches in length. He braced it
on his leg in carving, his fingers near the blade end where they might
delicately control the movement of the metal. Beasts of Gor, page 253
More knives
The ulo,
or woman’s knife, with its semicircular blade, customarily fixed in a wooden
handle, is not well suited to carving. It is better at cutting meat and slicing
sinew. Beasts of Gor, page 262
I did as I was told, and
Imnak, with a large, curved, bone, saw-toothed knife, a snow knife, began to
cut at a nearby drift of snow. Beasts of Gor, page 325
She placed the turf knife in the pit, through
the hole which we had left as its entrance. The turf knife is a wooden-bladed,
saw-edged, paddlelike
tool. It is used to cut and saw sod and, when the handle is held in the right
hand and the blade is supported with the left, it may be used, also, rather
like a shovel, to move dirt. Blood Brothers of Gor, pages 311-312
He then
drew the large, triangular-bladed knife from the beaded sheath on his belt.
Savages of Gor, page 114
He had sheathed his jagged-edged knife, a
fisherman’s knife. Explorers of Gor, page 285
He was
cutting, with a ship’s knife. . .” Marauders of Gor, page 261
He did have a bow case and quiver, and at the
thong on his waist was a beaded sheath, from which protruded the hilt of a
trade knife. Blood Brothers of Gor, page 8
Then the warrior threw her to her stomach,
binding her wrists together behind her back, then binding her ankles. With a
slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled
in the net, over his shoulder. Raiders of Gor, page 54