"There is at least one area, however,' said my father, 'in which the Priest-Kings do take a most active interest in this world, and that is the area of technology. They limit, selectively, the technology available to us, the Men Below the Mountains. For example, incredibly enough, weapon technology is controlled to the point where the most powerful devices of war are the crossbow and lances. Further, there is no mechanised transportation or communication equipment or detection devices such as the radar and sonar equipment so much in evidence in the military establishments of your world."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 31, by John Norman.

Axes
Alar War Axe, Francisca
Hurtha threw his things into the wagon. Among them was the heavy, single bladed Alar war ax. In the dialect of the Alars, if it is of interest, this particular type of ax is called the francisca. Among those, too, who have learned to fear it, it is often referred to by that name.
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 71, by John Norman.

Great Axe, Kurii
Behind the Kur, to one side, stood two other Kurii. They, like the first, were fearsome creatures. Each carried a wide, round shield, of iron, some four feet in diameter. Each, too, carried a great, double-bladed iron ax, which, from blade tip to blade tip, was some two feet in width. The handle of the ax was of carved, green needle wood, round, some four inches in diameter. The axes were some seven or eight feet in height.
Marauders of Gor, pg. 171, by John Norman.

Great Axe Single-bladed, Torvaldslander
"It had been he, and his men, who had freed Chenbar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, from a dungeon in Port Kar, breaking through to him, shattering his chains from the walls with the blunt, hammerlike backs of their great, curved single bladed axes."
Marauders of Gor, pg. 27, by John Norman.

Great Axe Double-bladed, Torvaldslander
The other, sitting cross-legged with him, was the broad-shouldered, blond giant from Torvaldsland whom I had seen earlier. He wore a shaggy jacket. His hair was braided. His feet and legs were bound in skins and cords. The large, curved, double-bladed, long-handled ax lay beside him. On his large brown leather belt, confining the long shaggy jacket he wore, which would have fallen to his knees, were carved the luck signs of the north."
Marauders of Gor, pg. 3, by John Norman.

The ax of Torvaldsland is one of the most fearful of the weapons on Gor"
Marauders of Gor, pg. 101, by John Norman.

There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical: it is pretended to have taken a full swing, even to the cry of the kill, but the swing is held short and not followed through; the antagonist then, if unwary, may rush forward, and be taken, the ax turned, off guard, by the back cut, from the left to right; sometimes it is possible, too, lf the opponent carries his shield too high, to step to the left, and, with a looping stroke, cut off the shield arm; a low stroke, too, can be dangerous, for the human foot, as swift as a sapling, may be struck away; defensively, of course, if one can lure the full stroke and yet escape it, one has an instant to press the advantage; this is sometimes done by seeming to expose more of the body than one wary to the ax might, that to tempt the antagonist, he thinking he is dealing with an unskilled foe, to prematurely commit the weight of his body to a full blow. The ax of Torvaldsland is one of the most fearful of the weapons on Gor. If one can get behind the ax, of course, one can meet it; but it is not easy to get behind the ax of one who knows its use, he need only strike one blow; he is not likely to launch it until it is assured of its target."
Marauders of Gor, pg. 101, by John Norman.

Hammer
I had learned that the Kur shield could be as devastating a weapon as the war hammer of Hunjer.
Marauders of Gor, pg. 227, by John Norman.

Trade Ax
A long-handled, single-bladed ax was pressed into her hands. It was a trade ax. Its back was blunted, for the driving of pegs, stakes and wedges.
Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 35, by John Norman.

Tomahawk
"At the left side of Hci's face, at the chin, there was an irregular, jagged scar, some two inches in length... It had been given to him by a Yellow Knife in mounted combat, the result of a stroke by a long-handled, stone bladed tomahawk, or canhpi."
Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 9, by John Norman.

War club
"For a slave, or a prisoner, to wear a breechclout might be regarded as pretentious or offensive," said Grunt, "an oversight or indiscretion calling for torture or, say, for being set upon by boys on kaiila, with war clubs."
Savages of Gor, pg. 166, by John Norman.

Arrows
Flight arrow
...the flight arrow is about forty inches in length. Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls.
Raiders of Gor, pg. 68, by John Norman.

Fire Arrow
Contrary to what one might think, incidentally, it is not easy to set fire to such structures. This has to do primarily with the verticality of the surfaces. The situation is very similar with a palisade. The common fire arrow, for example, usually burns itself out in place."
Renegades of Gor, pg. 39, by John Norman.

Hunting Arrow
The hunting arrow, incidentally, has a long, tapering point, and this point is firmly fastened to the shaft. This makes it easier to withdraw the arrow from its target."
Savages of Gor, pg. 40, by John Norman.

Sheaf arrow
"The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length. Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 68, by John Norman.

Simple Pile arrow
"I had used simple-pile arrows, which may be withdrawn from a wound. The simple pile gives greater penetration. Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last. One is, accordingly, in such cases, less likely to lose the point in the body."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 79, by John Norman.

Tuchuk barbed arrow
"Had I used the broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk Barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound..."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 79, by John Norman.

War arrow
"The war arrow, on the other hand, uses an arrowhead whose base, is either angled backwards, forming barbs, or cut straight across, the result in both cases being to make the arrow difficult to extract from a wound. The head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow. The point thus, by intent, if the shaft is pulled out is likely to linger in the wound."
Savages of Gor, pg. 40, by John Norman.

Bows
Crossbow
"Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities oof survival somewhat more broadly than the former."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 49, by John Norman.

Crossbow Quarrel
"At that distance he could not have missed, and if he had fired at that range, most probably the quarrel would have passed through my body and disappeared in the woods behind. The initial velocity of a quarrel is the better part of a pasang per second."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 100, by John Norman.

Horn bow
"The horn bow, unfortunately, formed of pieces of split tabuk horn, bound with sinew, is not effective beyond some thirty yards, One must, thus, be almost upon the animal before loosing the shaft. Wood is scarce in the north and the peasant bow, or longbow, is not known there. More importantly, in the colder weather, the long bow would freeze and snap."
Beasts of Gor, pg. 205, by John Norman.

"The bow, of course, small, for use from the saddle, lacks the range and power of the Gorean longbow or crossbow; still, at close range, with considerable force, firing rapidly, arrow after arrow, it is a fearsome weapon."
Nomads of Gor, pg. 66, by John Norman.

Long Bow
"And there was, too, the great bow, of supple ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk born at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk; it is the height of a man; it is the weapon of the pheasant."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 2, by John Norman.

Yet, as a weapon, it has serious disadvantages, and on Gor the crossbow, inferior in accuracy, range and rate of fire, with its heavy cable and its leaves of steel, tends to be generally favored. The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept set, loaded like a firearm, as can the crossbow
Raiders of Gor, pg. 2, by John Norman.

Ship bow
Ship bow The bows were put to their feet. They were short, ship bows, stout and maneuverable, easy to use in croweded quartes, easy to fire across the bulwarks of galleys locked in combat. I had seen only such bows in the holding of Policrates. Their rate of fire, of course, is much superior to that of the crossbow, either of the drawn or windlass variety.

All things considered, the ship bow is an ideal missile weapon for close-range naval combat. it is superior in this respect even to the peasant bow, or long bow, which excells it in impact, range and accuracy.
Rogue of Gor, pg. 307, by John Norman.

Short Bows
"I saw a short fellow in they street crowd. He was passing by. He was squat and broad, powerful, apparently very strong. Though the weather was cool in the early spring he was stripped to the waist. He wore trousers of fur, and fur boots, which came to the knee. His skin was dark, reddish like copper; his hair was bluish black, roughly cropped; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold. About his shoulder he had slung some of braided rope, fashioned from twisted sleen hide, and, in his hand, he carried a sack and a bundle of tied furs; at his back was a quiver containing arrows, and a short bow of sinew-bound, layered horn. Such men are seldom seen on Gor. They are the natives of the polar basin."
Beasts of Gor, pg. 48, by John Norman.

"We brushed through the scrabbling workers and saw before us the wharf, and the serpent, sleek and swift, of Ivar Forkbeard, at its moorings. Ten men had remained at the ship. Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, wit its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but at short range, within a hundred and fifty yards, it can administer a considerable strike. It has, too, the advantage that it is more manageable in close quarters than the peasant box resembling somewhat the Tuchuck bow of layered horn in this respect. It is more useful in close combat on a ship, for example, than would be the peasant bow."
Marauders of Gor, pg. 51, by John Norman.

Knives
Dagger
I turned, just in time to seize the wrist of the daughter of the Ubar as she struck savagely down at my back with a long, slender dagger. She howled with rage as I twisted the weapon from her hand."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 97, by John Norman.
At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted black of a Turian dagger; Free Women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife
Marauders of Gor, pg. 156, by John Norman.

Hook knife
Then the large man with missing teeth seized Hup's hair and pulled up the head, to expose the throat, holding in his right hand a small, thick, curved blade, the hook knife of Ar, used sheathed in the sport of that name, but the knife was not now sheathed.
Assassin of Gor, pg. 12, by John Norman.

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.
Assassin of Gor, pg. 42, by John Norman.

Pan ga
he 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, pg. 287, by John Norman.

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, pg. 66, by John Norman.

"...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, pg. 11, by John Norman.

"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." Nomads of Gor, pg. 67, by John Norman.

Sleen knife
They stopped only long enough to lift aside some branches and take up the light spears, and bows and arrows, which they had hidden there. Each girl wore, too, at her waist, a sheathed sleen knife.
Captive of Gor, pg. 122, by John Norman.

Snow knife
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, pg. 325, by John Norman.

Tarn knife
I saw that he had been given another knife, a tarn knife, of the sort carried by riders.
Assassin of Gor, pg. 363, by John Norman.

Throwing knife
Throwing knife of a sort used in Ar, much smaller than the southern quiva and tapered only on one side; a knife designed for killing.
Assassin of Gor, pg. 42, by John Norman.

Turf knife
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, pg. 311, by John Norman.

Ulo
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. Also, carving ivory and bone requires strength.
Beasts of Gor, pg. 262, by John Norman.

Whip knife
To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about seven or eight inches at the tip; others have a stunning lead, which fells the victim and permits him, half-conscious, to be cut to pieces at the attacker's leisure; the whip knife of Menicius, however, held at its tip the double-edged blade, capable of cutting a throat at twelve feet.
Assassin of Gor, pg. 363, by John Norman.

Harpoon/Lances
Harpoon, Long
"I picked up the beaded throwing board and the light harpoon, and fitted the harpoon shaft into the notch on the throwing board. The harpoon had a foreshaft of bone, with a bone . liead and point. A light rawhide line, of twisted tabuk sinew, ran to the head. In a flat. rounded tray directly before me, on the leather, there were coiled several feet of this line." Beasts of Gor, pg. 258, by John Norman.

Lances of the Wagon Peoples/Kaiila Lance
"The lances of the Wagon Peoples are not pouched. They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's High Middle Ages. Needless to say, they can be almost as swift and delicate in their address as a saber. The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. A loose loop of boskhide, wound twice about the right fist, helps to retain the weapon in hand-to-hand combat. It is seldom thrown." Nomads of Gor, pg. 15, by John Norman.

Kaiila Hunting/War Lance
The kaiila lance is used in hunting kailiauk as well as in mounted warfare. It is called the kaiila lance because it is designed to be used from kaiilaback.. kaiila lance takes, on the whole, two forms, the hunting lance and the war lance. Hunting lances are commonly longer, heavier and thicker than war lances. Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers Savages of Gor, pg. 43, by John Norman.

Tharlarion Lance
It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads.
Savages of Gor, pg. 43, by John Norman.

Tarn Lance
The tarn lance, it might be mentioned, as is used by the red savages who have mastered the tarn, is, in size and shape, very similar to the kaiila lance. It differs primarily in being longer and more slender. Savages of Gor, pg. 44, by John Norman.

Swords
Alar Long Sword (Spatha)
Besides the ax, Alars are fond of the Alar sword, a long, heavy, double-edged weapon.
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

"Too," he said. "I purchased this splendid sword," He unsheathed it and swung it about. He handled it lightly. It nearly decapitated a passing wagoner. It was a long, cutting sword, of the sort called a spatha among the wagons.
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 66, by John Norman.

Gladius
I put the quiva in my left hand, extending my left arm. I then silently drew my sword. The quiva presumably could act as a probe and defense. The sword, the quick, short double-edged Gorean gladius, was drawn back for a thrust.
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 387, by John Norman.

Long Sword
Blue Tooth was a large man, bearded, with a broad, heavy face. He had blue eyes, and was blond haired. His hair came to his shoulders, There was a knife scar under his left eye. He seemed a shrewd, highly intelligent, competent, avaricious man. I thought him probably an effective jarl. He wore a collar of fur, dyed scarlet, and a long cloak, over the left shoulder, of purple-dyed fur of the sea sleen. He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black, with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled, black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double guard.
Marauders of Gor, pg. 172, by John Norman.

Saber
I gather that the Wagon Peoples, if they wanted sabers or regarded them as valuable, would be able to acquire them, in spite of the fact that they have no metalworking of their own; there might be some attempt to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Wagon Peoples, but where there are gold and jewels, available merchants, in Ar and elsewhere, would see that they were manufactured and reached the southern plains. Most quivas, incidentally, are wrought in the smithies of Ar. The fact that the saber is not a common weapon of Wagon Peoples is a reflection of the style, nature and conditions of warfare to which they are accustomed, a matter of choice on their part rather than the result of either ignorance or technological limitation.
Nomads of Gor, pg. 124, by John Norman.

Scimitar
"Bring the scimitar of discipline," said Utafl. This was brought by a guardsman. Utafl showed the heavy, curved blade to the girl. She looked at it with horror. "You should not have run away, little white slave girl," he said. "No, no!" she cried in English. He went behind her and, gently, that he not cut her, laid the blade upon her ankles."
Beasts of Gor, pg. 69, by John Norman.

Alar Short Stabbing Sword (Sacramasax)
He also carried among his things the short, stabbing sword, similar to gladius, and doubtless related to it, called by his people the sacramasax. It is much more useful on foot, particularly in close combat.
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 66, by John Norman.

Short Sword
My training in the short, stabbing sword of the Goreans was as thorough as they could make it."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 47, by John Norman.

Spears
Spear, Common
"The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height, heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in length. It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood. ." Outlaw of Gor, pg. 21, by John Norman.

Trident
Trident I could use some paga, said he. He had purchased the net in the morning with a trident, the traditional weapons of the fisherman of the western shore and the western islands.
Raiders of Gor, pg. 112, by John Norman.

Other Weapons
Bola
"He was very erect in the saddle. His lance remained on his back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful horn bow of the Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular quiver containing as many as forty arrows. On the saddle there also hung, on one side, a coiled rope of braided boskbide and, on the other, a long, three-weighted bola of the sort used in hunting tumits and men; 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, pg. 11, by John Norman.

"Slowly, singing in a gutteral chant, a Tuchuk warrior song, he began to swing the bola. It consists of three long straps of I leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round, metal weight. It was probably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well, as a weapon of war. Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps. Sometimes legs are broken. It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become. Thrown high the Gorean bole can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull. One entagles the victim with the bole, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat." Nomads of Gor, pg. 27, by John Norman.

Knife gauntlets
"In the pits of Ar," he said, "he has fought with the spiked leather, and with the knife gauntlets."
Fighting Slave of Gor, pg. 318, by John Norman.

Kurii beam projector
Beside the ship I found the remains of a shelter of stones and tarpaulins. Scattered about were men. I did not think they were alive. I froze, as I saw, through the wind and sand, another Kur. It was armed. In its right paw it held a small device. It was hunched over, it peered through the storm.

I saw the paw lift and I threw myself to the side. A large, square rock, near me, one of those which had held the tarpaulin, leaped upward, split in two, burnt black, and the slightest instant, almost simultaneous, afterward I heard the atmospheric concussion of the weapon.

He held the weapon outward from him, toward me. He tried to hold his balance. I conjectured that his weapon held a limited number of charges. It did not fire like a ray, but rather on the analogy of a cartridge weapon. Suddenly I felt the steel of the ship at my back. The beast emerged from the sand. I saw its lips draw back; it steadied the weapon in the whipping wind with both paws; I thrust at the circular switch on the ring about my neck. Suddenly I saw the Kur as though in red light, and the sand, too, darkly red to black. To my amazement, it seemed startled; it hesitated; I leapt to the side. A blast from the hand-held weapon struck the steel of the ship. In its side there was a blackened hole, as though drilled; metal ran in droplets down the side of the ship.
Tribesman of Gor, pg. 287, by John Norman.

Kurii dart thrower
The men on either side of the cage cart carried some sort of projectile weapon. It fired, I conjectured, judging from the breech, a long, conical, gas-impelled dart. The principles of the weapon, I assumed, were similar to those of a rifle, except that the missile would not be a slug of metal but something more in the nature of a tiny quarrel, some six inches in length. The weapons had carved wooden stocks, reminiscent of a time in which rifles were the work of craftsmen. Eccentric designs surmounted these stocks. The actual firing of the weapon was apparently by means of a button in the forepart of the stock. Although this button could be depressed quickly it could not be jerked, as a trigger might be, either on a rifle or crossbow, an action which sometimes, in moving the weapon, ruins or impairs the aim. Each man carried a bag at his left hip. It contained, I supposed, among other accouterments, the missiles, or darts, for the weapon.
Beasts of Gor, pg. 350, by John Norman.

Silver tube
These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the Flame Death Mechanism. Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away.
Priest Kings of Gor, pg. 229, by John Norman.

Spiked Leather
"In the pits of Ar," he said, "he has fought with the spiked leather, and with the knife gauntlets."
Fighting Slave of Gor, pg. 318, by John Norman.