The Armour Archive

Dave Womble

Been a LONG time since I've posted/participated on this site....divorce, life fell apart, no internet, etc etc. in goin thru my stuff lookin for things to part with. Came accross these and figured someone here might enjoy them. Make an offer for the lot or individually. Meeting With Japan, by Fosco ...

Dave Womble

Following is a list of books and CDs I just wanna be rid of. Make a reasonable offer. postage not included. Paypal preferred. BOOKS: Making Mead, paperback, 61 pgs,Bryan Acton and Peter Duncan Archeology of Weapons, paperback, 359 pgs, Ewart Oakeshott. Has some water damage, but its restricted prima...

Dave Womble

I'm not shipping this to anyone, you can come and get it. Make an offer. But you may wish to come look at it first before you make any offers. This thing is truly a beast. I tried to wear it once and it felt like i was trying to move and bend while standing in a barrel. If you're tall enough, and bu...

Dave Womble

I've got a CoP/brigandine-ish costume armour I just want to get rid of....make an offer, i just want it gone. Its insanely heavy, too stiff and rigid to actually wear properly unless youre really tall. Its beautiful to look at, but the armourer who made it wasnt very knowledgable about that type of ...

Dave Womble

Think I remember awhile back someone mentioning here on the Archive that archers made use of mauls for pounding in stakes and makeshift palisades as defense versus cavalry/infantry attacks on their positions...these would have been more like the 20 lb sledge variety that was mentioned. Cant cite any...

Dave Womble

not totally sure on this, but I believe conversion of most of Norway anyways happened around 1000AD...no idea on Denmark. So lets say 1000AD give or take a decade. How much do we know of indigenous people becoming missionaries/monks themselves in their own lands? Where did Christian clergy rank in s...

Dave Womble

Ok, bare with me...I was watching Beowulf (the latest CGI one) (yes I know Beowulf doesnt take place during the Viking Age, I'm just drawing parallels)and the "new christ religion" or however they dubbed it was mentioned, and it got me thinking how exactly monks and/or missionaries would have been l...

Dave Womble

I saw someone on here awhile ago that made copper and silver roses, but I cant remember who it was.

My anniversary is coming up next month and I'm looking to get wifey a rose that will never wilt...just like my love and affection for her

Dave

Dave Womble

In regards to Mords last post, I've been wondering for awhile now if various large settlements would have been known for specific good and services...Within Scandinavia, were there specialized centers for leatherworking...quarrying stone...timber, glass, jewelry, were there any mail and weapon manuf...

Dave Womble

I was wondering what kinds of equipment the Norse would have encountered in the course of their dealings with the Umayyad and Aghlabid emirates and the Idrisid Caliphate, and points further east. All my books deal with western europe and the north atlantic.

Dave Womble

This whole thing got me to wondering if it would have been plausible for Leif and family to have taken natives captive back with them when they abandoned thier farmstead. Or were skraelings considered not even fit for thralls?

Dave Womble

First of all, I think I just gooed on my keyboard. Dammit. And secondly, "insert complimenting phrases of every previous poster here" I have a couple questions I thought of immediatly. First, I'm curious about the green belt...I dunno why, but I've always just assumed all belts of that and subsequen...

Dave Womble

That and it comes down to $ and exposure for the group as a whole...doing a re-enactment for a production company, even erroneously, is basically paid advertising. They get noticed, and it makes OTHER production companies notice them too. The fact they (Regia and others of their ilk) have no qualms ...

Dave Womble

I was looking over some history and geography articles recently, mostly about China and Japan, and I got to wondering....how far east did the Norse go? What's the furthest east documentable location for Viking age norsemen to be found? Surely the Silk Road would have drawn the attention of enterpris...

Dave Womble

sort of off topic, but since the subject of scythes came up, I was wondering approximately when/where farm implements in Scandinavia began to be used as weapons rather than tools...and do we know when/if they began to take on more martial evolution (ie the various configurations of pole arms)

Dave

Dave Womble

How would a pagan norseman be accepted in predominantly Christian settlements? Especially if he prominantly displayed his "old faith". Do we know how tolerant the Bishoprics were to pagans?

Dave

Dave Womble

I'm still hoping we eventually find evidence of organic armour in Norse lands...bone, horn, baleen...wood....

I'm fascinated by organic armours from around the world

Dave Womble

I'd call that a morning star =)

Dave Womble

Einar tries it, but states: "Too weak is the King's bow". Thats a sweet line if ever I heard one...I havnt yet started reading that one...I have a bunch I bought off Amazon...still trying to get through Laxdaela Saga, Saga of the Jomsvikings and the Volsung Saga, and I havnt even opened Heimskringl...

Dave Womble

Thats what i thought. How much variation was there between mail shirts worn by Romans, to those worn by Vikings, to those worn by soldiers in the 14th century? I mean obviously lengths of hems and sleeves changed, but is that it?

Dave Womble

I had always been under the impression that the only surviving Viking Age mail shirt was the Gjermundbu (sp?) one...however, in thumbing through The Vikings, by Ian Heath (an Osprey title) on page 46, there is a photograph of 2 extant corselets, one from Vaerdalen, North Trondelag and the other from...

Dave Womble

Thank you for the clarifications guys.

Dave Womble

I always thought it odd that walrus hide wasn't crafted into armour (as far as we know currently)...they did craft it into rope (which I would think more unlikely than making it into body armour or shields). Especially given the skill and ingenuity of Norse craftsmen. I keep holding out for new evid...

Dave Womble

I have a question....is there a difference between a cudgel and a club? Where does cudgel (the word) originate from? When does a club/cudgel become a mace?

Dave Womble

I stand corrected. My question now is why are later period long bows treated with such awe, as if they were a new ultimate weapon? If they'd been around for centuries, how come all of a sudden they seemed to be regarded as the .50 Cal of their day? In what context were those larger bows found in? Wa...

Dave Womble

I dont believe "longbows" as we think of them existed yet...they used shorter "self" bows I believe. Primarily for hunting, but missle exchanges during sea battles were quite common.

Dave Womble

LMAO

SWEET!

Dave Womble

ah well, still no lamellar armour

Very good stuff though.

Dave Womble

Various people bought me stuff back when the 1st movie and toys came out...however, I'm not interested in LotR collectables. Looking to sell or trade for Transformers figures. I've got a LotR Edition Stratego board game, never used, Merry with Rohan armour figure, still on the card, Gollum with elec...

Dave Womble

Rather than bother trying to sell the few odds and ends I have left, I'd rather just donate it to local SCAdians and enthusiasts. Catch? You gotta come get it. I have the Otto's Armoury demi gaunts I mentioned previously, a black suede mantle (the one featured in MRL), a ribbed cotton tunic (also fr...

Dave Womble

Nice 4 volume set: Empires of the Ancient Near East, includes The babylonians, egyptians, persians and Hittites.

The Celts

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Greek Myths volumes 1 and 2

Make a reasonable offer.

Dave Womble

will get a pic ASAP if I can.

Dave Womble

never used, sized large, from Otto's Armoury. Need some cleaning up. mild steel...not sure of gauge...16 I believe.

$15 + postage.

Dave Womble

You'll find that armour was pretty rare in Viking Age Scandinavia and abroad. It'd be like people owning a Bentley nowadays. Hence all the mysticism attributed to such rich war gear like mail shirts and swords...they were rare and highly prized items...body armour and swords were viewed not only as ...

Dave Womble

Heh.

Thats about what I expected. Museum Replicas....Limited....thats for sure...extremely limited in accuracy.

They look nice, and no doubt make great Ren faire and fantasy garb.

Thanks for the reply.

got some books on Japan, make an offer.

Books and CDs for sale

anybody around the Lakes Region of NH:

Christianity in viking age Scandinavia

looking for metalwork roses

arab arms and equipment during the Viking Age

How far east did the Norse go in the Viking Age....

Norse/viking mail shirts?

LotR toys, few things I wanna get rid of....

Donating stuff to local people (Lakes Region NH)

Folio Society hardbound books FS

FS cheap demi gaunts