The typical Germanic weapon of the Migration period (5^th and 6^thcenturies) was the long double-edged sword (spatha). Eight warriors buried with such swords have thus far been found at Kranj. The hilts of three of the swords terminate in a bronze trapezoid pommel and belong to the variant of European swords most widespread in the second half of the 6^thcentury. Their blades were often damascened. This technique was also used in the production of the sword from one of the burials in Kranj (7), found together with a goldsmith’s balance. It was a burial of a swordsman interred with a spear and a shield, which is the set of weapons typical of the rank of the Langobard warriors called (h)arimanni. Swordsmen were frequently also armed with a bow and arrows, which they kept in a quiver suspended from an iron hook.

Knific, Timotej in Nabergoj, Tomaž, 2016: Medieval Stories from the Crossroads, Ljubljana, Fig. 51, pp. 41-48, 221.