The Armour Archive

Micke D

I'm sorry for that,

It's very strange as it works fine for me.
But as you say, if the link doesn't work, search for Battle of Wisby. There will hopefully be some more clips to.

Micke D

The first 4 clips on that page is from the same event, Battle of Wisby 1361 - 2011.

Micke D

The 14th C guys should probably be interested in the following clip on YouTube:
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri= ... o04hSGEHoc

Micke D

It would have been very interesting to know where Harmuth has found these figures, as I can't really think that anyone has tried an old composite crossbow, and the few replicas I know of are made recently. And I also think that we can rule out that someone had written it down in the late 15th centur...

Micke D

Hi Randall! One Foot 350(composite)-450(steel)kg Just a little correction. I have finally, after a long search, found the first book that Egon Harmuth wrote, "Die Armbrust" from 1986. I believe that Liebel have miss read the values in that book a little bit, they were taken at a few centimetres too ...

Micke D

One of the wood carving prints from that time period shows one piece of leather attached towards the wrist and two pieces towards the elbow. It shows all these parts laced together. Is it possible for you to show a photo of this type of bracer? I don't think I have seen that print. I must say that ...

Micke D

At least one of the bracers from Mary Rose is like the one you describe Cat, with the wrist end narrower than the elbow end.

Micke D

It may very well have been Bartletts article I read it in.

Micke D

I have read that too, but I don't think it was laced originally.
I think it was used with two Y-straps as Jantien has made his.

Micke D

Is the 300 lb your eyeball weight or has some analysis been done? I think its draw weight is a lot higher than 300 lb, but we can not be sure before some one has built a decent replica and tried it. I have seen an Italian guys horn bow and it had a 300 lb draw weight and it was a lot skinnier than ...

Micke D

What in h**l is a Lunik? Never heard of that before.

Micke D

I think I have heard somewhere that the Swedish king Karl XII (17 June 1682 â€“ 30 November 1718) who was king of Sweden from 1697 to 1718, tried to farm moose to use for fast transport in the Swedish forests. IIRC this project was too dangerous, because the moose was too fast. But sadly I donâ€™t h...

Micke D

You donâ€™t have to be horrified Andrew, all the CoPs are reproductions.

Its just like Effingham said, â€œTHAT'S where all those reproduction CoPs ended up!â€

Micke D

Hi Chef!

Is there any chance that you could show a few photos of the late 15th century composite crossbow and the cranequin?

Micke D

Excuse my ignorance Lazarith, but what is hell is leather chainmail?

Micke D

I translated the text on an old drawing I made some time ago. I don't think you understand Swedish, but I hope you understand the drawing. This is drawn from Egon Harmuths book "Die Armbrust". http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z111/MickeDahlstrom/Koger/Kogerrem-1.jpg Two ways of hanging the quiver....

Micke D

Hi Lord_Wolf use this link instead:

http://histvarld.historiska.se/histvarl ... ekter.html

Micke D

The late German crossbow scholar Egon Harmuth has written that: A 15th C military steel bow had a draw weight of approximately 450kg/1000pounds. A 15th C military horn bow had a draw weight of approximately 350kg/780pounds. Iâ€™m not sure how he came to these figures, but they are the only ones I ha...

Micke D

In Swedish it's called "brynja".

Micke D

I know that I have seen leather covers for spears in a German museum somwhere.
I'll have to check my home computer and see if I can find pix of them.

Micke D

Another treat for the Landsknecht fans!
Some of the guys and girls from StockholmsfÃ¤nikan has started a new group:
http://www.kriegsleute1523.org/

Micke D

I think he mentions somewhere in the book that many/most of the purses seem to have been dumped in the canals.
Some of them could definitely be something that thiefâ€™s have thrown in the water after they had taken the valuables. Many of the buckles is also missing.

Micke D

Hi Randall, Iâ€™m sorry to say that we donâ€™t have anything online, not yet at least. But I can say that we have recently started a few composite crossbow projects that I hope will work out nice. I am always searching for more pictures and other info on medieval crossbows, any new information on co...

Micke D

More importantly, the shower soaked the strings of the Genoese crossbows, making them stretch and thus lose power. Why, why, why, must Nicolle repeat this silly myth??? A well made crossbow string of hemp should in NO way soak up a lot of water and stretch!! I can see no reason for an elite force t...

Micke D

Thank you again Thomas! What I meant is that it will take some time and effort to find these articles as some of them are rather old, and I need to know where to start searching. Iâ€™m not an academic so Iâ€™m not used to search for old articles. I just have one more thing that I want to know for no...

Micke D

Thank you Thomas! I downloaded the PDF from the Legermuseum, "Een Zwickause Pavese". It has a nice bibliography, but I'm not to sure if any of the articles are possible to find. I will see if it's possible to translate at least parts of the article from Dutch to English. When skimming through the ar...

Micke D

Hello again guys!

If I want to see and learn more about Pavises, where can i found it?
Any new/old books and/or articles?

I had some hope that Jan Kohlmorgens shield book would show a bit more about Pavises, but that was not much.

Best wishes,
Micke D

Micke D

Hi guys! Have any of you, including Thomas H in particular, taken any measurements on a Pavise? How thick are the sides? How thick are the gutter pice? I'm mostly interested in the type with square gutter piece on the front that ends in a beak, but any Pavise will do for now so that I have something...

Micke D

Notice the size of the tanged quarrel points. Some of them have got to be at least an inch in width, the weight I cant even guess. Hi Geoffroi! I think that they are bigger than an inch in thickness. I have a line drawing of a Swedish 14th to 16th century quarrel. It is 39,7cm long, 15mm thick at t...

Micke D

Hi Bob!

What happened to the brigandine nails order?

I have not heard anything from Bob, so I don't know if I have missed it?

/Micke D

Micke D

Hi Sinric,

it was 5 lb. of the 14ga. Tin Plated Steel Brigandine nails I meant.

Iâ€™ll see what Chef says about the shipping.

/Micke D

[This message has been edited by Micke D (edited 05-15-2003).]

Micke D

Hi guys!

I want 5 lbs of the tinned steel ones if it's possible to have them shipped to Sweden.

Micke D

Micke D

Thank you again Erik!!!

That's about all the info I need on tube Vervelles.

Micke D

Micke D

Thanks guys! Erik: The pics helped a lot! I didn't realise that they could be just a rolled tube. Seems not too hard to make and looks very convincing. How long did you make them? 1/2" roughly 1,5cm? No, I have no good reference for vervelles on a cervellieres/skull caps. Albrekt: I think that I wil...

Micke D

Hi Erik! If all goes my way, I will attachÃ© an aventail to a scull cap for my 1360s kit. If these vervelles are easy to make, I will try to make some for my own use. Pics of modern reproductions will do well, if they look authentic. Sizes and spacing info would be nice to. Do you know anyone sellin...

Re: Battle of Wisby 1361

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Battle of Wisby 1361

Medieval quarrels.

Bob Reed, the brig nails order?