Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-139.216.236.57-20130528071007/@comment-5253355-20130528080932

Well, then... Swords are faster than the other weapons, but hit for a little less.

Axes are "medium" fast, and have a litlle bit more damage than swords.

And maces are the slowest of the three, but hits harder. The perks you can get are; Attacks with swords have a 10% chance of doing critical damage (+5% per additional rank, does not apply to daggers), Attacks with war axes cause extra bleeding damage (Additional ranks raise the bleeding damage). Attacks with maces ignore 25% of armor (+25% per additional rank), this includes the armor provided by flesh spells and wards.

Enchanted weapons benefit most often more from faster weapons, such as the absorb health, or fire damage, since both have a set amount of damage on them (doesn't scale with the weapon's damage). So my choice would be, and is swords.