Labrys

“	[The] only lead was a young boy on his bike who saw a big guy in a long coat walking through the woods with, and I quote, "A really big-ass axe."	”
–Drew Wu, in "Bad Luck"

Labrys
Owned by:	Nigel Edmund (formerly)  Marie Kessler (formerly) Nick Burkhardt Kelly Schade-Burkhardt
Others:	Monroe
Purpose:	Severing the feet of Willaharas and killing opponents in melee combat
Location:	Trailer Nick and Adalind's Loft (formerly) Exotic Spice & Tea Shop basement (formerly) Marie's Trailer (formerly)
Appearances

A Labrys (LAY-briss; from Greek, likely Lydian origin, λάβρυς, lábrys) is a symmetric double-headed, two-handed axe that is typically used by Leporem Venators when severing the foot of a Willahara. It is also used as a melee weapon in hand-to-hand combat.

Description

While the double-headed blades of the Labrys can inflict lethal damage, the blunt end of the handle can also be used to injure and subdue a target. Like most bladed weapons, the sharpness and quality of the axe blades has to be periodically maintained.

After centuries of being victimized by Leporem Venators, this weapon has become symbolic of these hunters for the Willahara species, as Peter Bennett immediately recognized what Nigel Edmund was when he shined his flashlight on the Labrys he was carrying.

Images

Two labryses are stored in the trailer weapons cabinet

Juliette lights the contents of the trailer on fire ("Iron Hans")

A Grimm wielding a labrys, as depicted in Grimm: Dark Legacy

Trivia

• The Labrys with its "endless edge" is the probable etymological root of the term "labyrinth," which is equally without egress.
• The Labrys was pictured in promo images for Season 2 and Season 3, as well as on the DVD and Blu-ray disc box covers for seasons two, three, and five. Nick is also pictured holding a labrys on the re-released DVD box cover for Grimm: The Complete Collection.
• Nigel Edmund's labrys reappeared in the series finale, as it was seen stored in the weapons cabinet of Nick and his family's new and improved trailer.

Season 1 Appearances
"Pilot": ✓	"Bears Will Be Bears": ✓	"Beeware": X	"Lonelyhearts": X	"Danse Macabre": X	"The Three Bad Wolves": X	"Let Your Hair Down": X	"Game Ogre": ✓	"Of Mouse and Man": X	"Organ Grinder": X	"Tarantella": X
"Last Grimm Standing": ✓	"Three Coins in a Fuchsbau": ✓	"Plumed Serpent": X	"Island of Dreams": X	"The Thing with Feathers": X	"Love Sick": X	"Cat and Mouse": X	"Leave It to Beavers": ✓	"Happily Ever Aftermath": X	"Big Feet": X	"Woman in Black": ✓

Season 2 Appearances
"Bad Teeth": ✓	"The Kiss": ✓	"Bad Moon Rising": X	"Quill": X	"The Good Shepherd": ✓	"Over My Dead Body": X	"The Bottle Imp": ✓	"The Other Side": X	"La Llorona": ✓	"The Hour of Death": ✓	"To Protect and Serve Man": X
"Season of the Hexenbiest": ✓	"Face Off": ✓	"Natural Born Wesen": X	"Mr. Sandman": X	"Nameless": X	"One Angry Fuchsbau": ✓	"Volcanalis": X	"Endangered": X	"Kiss of the Muse": X	"The Waking Dead": X	"Goodnight, Sweet Grimm": X

Season 3 Appearances
"The Ungrateful Dead": X	"PTZD": X	"A Dish Best Served Cold": X	"One Night Stand": X	"El Cucuy": X	"Stories We Tell Our Young": X	"Cold Blooded": ✓	"Twelve Days of Krampus": X	"Red Menace": X	"Eyes of the Beholder": X	"The Good Soldier": X
"The Wild Hunt": X	"Revelation": ✓	"Mommy Dearest": X	"Once We Were Gods": X	"The Show Must Go On": X	"Synchronicity": X	"The Law of Sacrifice": X	"Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen": X	"My Fair Wesen": X	"The Inheritance": X	"Blond Ambition": X

Season 4 Appearances
"Thanks for the Memories": ✓	"Octopus Head": X	"The Last Fight": X	"Dyin' on a Prayer": X	"Cry Luison": X	"Highway of Tears": X	"The Grimm Who Stole Christmas": X	"Chupacabra": X	"Wesenrein": ✓	"Tribunal": X	"Death Do Us Part": Dream
"Maréchaussée": X	"Trial by Fire": ✓	"Bad Luck": ✓	"Double Date": X	"Heartbreaker": X	"Hibernaculum": X	"Mishipeshu": X	"Iron Hans": ✓	"You Don't Know Jack": ✓	"Headache": X	"Cry Havoc": X

Season 5 Appearances
"The Grimm Identity": X	"Clear and Wesen Danger": X	"Lost Boys": X	"Maiden Quest": X	"The Rat King": X	"Wesen Nacht": X	"Eve of Destruction": X	"A Reptile Dysfunction": X	"Star-Crossed": X	"Map of the Seven Knights": X	"Key Move": X
"Into the Schwarzwald": X	"Silence of the Slams": X	"Lycanthropia": X	"Skin Deep": X	"The Believer": X	"Inugami": X	"Good to the Bone": X	"The Taming of the Wu": X	"Bad Night": X	"Set Up": X	"The Beginning of the End": ✓

Season 6 Appearances
"Fugitive": X	"Trust Me Knot": X	"Oh Captain, My Captain": X	"El Cuegle": X	"The Seven Year Itch": X	"Breakfast in Bed": X	"Blind Love": X
"The Son Also Rises": X	"Tree People": ✓	"Blood Magic": X	"Where the Wild Things Were": X	"Zerstörer Shrugged": X	"The End": ✓

Video Game Appearances

"Grimm: Dark Legacy": ✓