longobard axe

[tom hyle]

Does anyone have any information as to the identity/construction/apperance of the German migration era "longo-bard" axe; ie long-bearded axe? I envision a long handled axe with a very long cutting edge similar to a bardiche or Lake Haber axe and probably related, possibly by descent, to long-bladed turf axes, but this is speculation much more vague than my equation of halberd (hall beard=hall axe=house axe) as a meat cleaver on a stick. But I've seen a lot of early halberds, with their rectangular blades, their heavy edges, and their commonly tanged construction. Does anyone have pictures of objects that are thought to be long-beard axes?
I wonder if Billman reads this forum? I suspect he might have something to say.
BTW, the 18th century dress/show/guard "halberds" seem to me to be largely fairly clearly pole axes, not anything I'd recognize as a halberd. A halberd on a shorter stick with a thrusting point and a rectangular blade persisted in Northern and central Europe into modern times as a travelling axe, similar in use though not appearance to those Polish(etc.) axes with the lil mountain climbing spear on the butt, but I'm not sure what they're called.