This volume presents 399 swords from Lower Saxony (Germany) from the early Bronze Age through the beginning of the Hallstatt period. Additional elements discussed are various sword accessories such as chapes, lockets, cross guards, and rain guards. In two extensive chapters, the author discusses swords and short swords as burial objects in men's graves during the Bronze Age of Lower Saxony, and the origin of short swords of the types Sogel and Wohlde in Lower Saxony, Hohlstein, all the way to the Carpathian Basin. German text.