Many 2 handed swords have an unsharpened section of the blade above the hilt, possibly with a smaller hand guard (for great swords, anyway), for more control in close quarter fighting, etc.
Yeah, from Albion's description of their Tyrolean:
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The sword was designed for broad, sweeping cutting blows (such as clearing a line of pikes) and then for thrusting by using a "half-swording" technique (gripping the hilt in one hand and the blade in the other) in close-quarter fighting.
Something I'm quite inexpert about myself. As much as I'd love to learn how to actually handle the various swords in my collection, it's probably best that I don't. I like having fingers.
