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Originally Posted by Jonathan Gage
I would also take it a step furthur by conjecturing that the larger seax weapons evolved from the smaller tool and the angled back of the larger weapons were a left over romantic redundancy, part of a transition period, which was unnecessary and soon lost.
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I might have to disagree- the large choppers of the early Migration era evolve into the small utility knives of the Viking Age. The angled spine of the broken-back Seax arrive comparatively later (7th C. CE-ish,) and are generally Anglo-Saxon. The rounded wharncliffe-like blade shape goes from 4th C right on up to the late Langseax in Norway.
Second from the bottom is typical early Migration (upside down,) and the next one up is mid-Viking Age.
(Du Chaillu, The Viking Age, Vol II p. 70.)