In Njal's saga, one hero wields both a sword and a halberd ("atgeir", axe-spear) in his last stand battle. While this is fiction, it is contemporary fiction...
The chinese have whole lots of two-sword (or two-knife, if you prefer Crocodile Dundee's definition) techniques. So does Eskrima, which is a blend of the Strasbourgian school of fencing with native Philippine techniques for stick, knife and sword fighting.
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