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Igor of Maguar

Merry Christmas!

Sorry, but reading "Buckhurst" my mind always outputs "Bockwurst"

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double post

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The text is perhaps a commentary on Ephesians 6:14-15

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace

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Anyone know these guys https://www.yahoo.com/news/suiting-swis ... 20356.html ?
They are making 80 suits of armour for the papal swiss guard. Check out the image gallery.

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Looking Good!
Sebbe will shine like a king.
Cheers

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Here is a donor image of a danish magnate ca 1080-1151

http://www.oresundstid.dk/arkiv/arkivbi ... ledeid=506

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And in Danish, it is called " brynje".

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My company is sending me to Denmark for a week of training and I hope that I might have the chance to meet local armourers or get suggestions on places/museums/historical sites to visit while I'm there. I'm specifically interested in 14th century stuff but have been known to let my inner Viking out...

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Lucian Ro wrote:I still love you, man.

yeah

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I am starting to collect figurines from Schleich. I got this knight at Target this past weekend http://www.elementsofnature.ca/Images/Schleich/70019a.jpg My wife (who really doesn't get into or enjoy the whole SCA/medieval thing) really likes them. She said she thought it would be fun to build a mo...

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So my son is 6 months. It high time that I start buying him these

http://www.plastoy.net/g_catalogue.php?docid=34#

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You might like this one as well. He was a so-called "sÃ¸hane" or pirate operating under the protection of the danish king, who wanted to harras the Hanseatic league: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didrik_Pining Also there was the noble-man Olav Nielsson Skanke, who became such a nuisance to the mercha...

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sweet!

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This might help

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FergusStout wrote:Perhaps this is a painting commemorating the Knights Hospitallers leaving Rhodes on Jan 1, 1523 after the Turkish siege the last half of 1522?

Just a guess.

Fergus

Or a painting that illustrates the widely published account of the siege of Rhodes 1480. The one the Knights Hospitallers fought off.

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some from the inside: (click for larger pics) http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pers/TN_grandbasinetBern15.JPG http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pers/TN_grandbasinetBern17.JPG http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pers/TN_grandbasinetBern47.JPG some of the original http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pers/TN_grandbasinetBern5.JPG http:/...

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Sir Gaston wrote:Very nice!
I wish I had looked you guys up when I was in Copenhagen.

you should have

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Here some pictures Per asked me to post. The last pic is of the original in Bern. I'll leave it to Per to do the explanation, click for larger pics http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pers/TN_grand%20basinet%20Bern2.JPG http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pers/TN_grand%20basinet%20Bern4.JPG http://www.1400-tallet.dk/pe...

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. 2. Bit unsure about the translation of the part in the brackets, my Danish is a bit rusty and I'm lacking a good English word for "Indknibning"... Johan Schubert Moen Being Danish I guess I could chip in here.. "indknibning" seems to me to refer to the shield bosses, and I understand it to mean t...

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This is actually touching on somÃ©thing I wrote my thesis on. The theology on the seven capital sins is actually bordering on psychology, and especially so in the case of Acedia the sin of Sloth. Usually this is translated into something like laziness, but a more fitting word would be demoralization...

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thanks

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Some Greathelms I didn't know existed
Wonder if they are authentic?

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Nydam und Thorsberg: Moorfunde der Eisenzeit Jankuhn, Herbert 10. Aufl. NeumÃ¼nster. Wachholtz. 1975. 40 S.. Wegweiser durch die Sammlung / Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum fÃ¼r Vor- und FrÃ¼hgeschichte in Schleswig ; 3. ISBN 3-529-01603-9 seems to be a short guide to the exhibition You could a...

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http://www.burgenkunde.de/images/coucy/Washing3_small.jpg http://www.burgenkunde.de/images/coucy/K217_small.jpg http://www.burgenkunde.de/index/index2_eng.htm tournament http://www.burgenkunde.de/images/turnier/Turnier140_small.jpg http://www.burgenkunde.de/index/index2_eng.htm

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There is a sweet spot where the holes should be. You can feel this spot if you hold together the pieces with your thumb and index-finger and try to move the pieces like they should when articulated. If your fingers can stay exactly over each other, and are not forced sideways at all, then you have f...

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Hurra!

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35000 views!!!

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Here is mine:
I made the legs, elbows, back and shoulders

[img]http://www.maguar.org/images/Odense2002-a.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.maguar.org/images/Odense2002-c.jpg[/img]

cheers
Igor

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papal seals in the toilet shaft... Hm this must bed the work of the schismatic Hussites or the followers of those crazed followers of Martin L the monk.

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A debating forum is like a plant and a moderator is like a gardener. If you cut too much the plant may die - (perish the thought ) It seems to me that the long interesting answers from people with knowledge on armour , is getting sparser. Perhaps some of the "old" experts have gone tired of explaini...

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So more than likely 999 out of every 1000 of us here in the USA, SCA or the A.A are descendents of those peasants, and the most appropriate portrayal would be a serf. I'm just living the dream!!!! Actually if you do the maths - any of us must have some 10.000 ancestors that lived in the 14. c. (all...

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My choice of authority on this subject would be EriK Schmidt (not the mail expert). He has studied many houndreds of effigies, and last time I discussed this with him, he was starting to form some interesting conclusions.

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Erik Schmidt would be my choice of authority on this subject - he has studied many houndreds of effigies, and last I discussed the matter with him he was starting to form some interesting conclusions.

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Very nice!

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Have there been any other finds in Scandinavia of Buklari or are the Gimsoy Buklari the only ones? Are the Gimsoy Buklari on display at a museum or they locked away somewhere? These are from the National museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. I don't have any information on them though. HOTH cheers

Re: Greenwich Buckhurst armour

Re: Manuscript from Heidelberg, 1494

Re: Manuscript from Heidelberg, 1494

Outfitting the papal swiss guard

Re: Looking for local information in Aarhus, Denmark

Toys for us - well researched plastic figures

Grand Bascinet from Bern - Some new work by Per Lillelund

impressive model of besieged french donjon

Re: gimsoy buklari