The Armour Archive

Egfroth

The other possibility is just to address the letter to the museumas well as you know how, and trust to luck. I've done this successfully several times - the Post Office is probably used to it, and if they're well-known museums (hell, there's only going to be one archaeological Museum in Lodz, isn't ...

Egfroth

There are quite a few extant examples of conical helmets raised from one piece; as well as the "Wenceslaus" helm, there's the well-known "nasalhelm" from Moravia, plus about three or four others, photographs of which appear in the Osprey book "Saxon Norman and Viking" (I think - see, there IS some g...

Egfroth

I've seen them too - well, one, anyway - but I've never seen anything that looks like one in a contemporary pic. But then I wasn't looking for such things - hovere, I believe I'd have seen it if it was there. Egfroth Oh, hang on - there IS one example I can think of - it's from an (Italian?) copy of...

Egfroth

Can I suggest you make up a set of patterns of the same shoe in a selection of sizes (maybe 1/2 size increments)- you just do this by photocopying your basic pattern at various enlargements - and either get people to pay you in advance and then get a job lot of leather, or else (not so good) get peo...

Egfroth

very pretty - a nice piece of work.

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Egfroth

"I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction"

Major Dennis Bloodnok, Queen's Forty-Third Deserters (retd.)

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Egfroth

If you look at the guy with the red shield near the right of this pic, you'll see that he has the back of the shield facing us, and in fact you can see both enarmes (arranged in a rectangle) and guige (they're yellow). The Bayeux Tapestry shows several strapping methods; this is the one I like to us...

Egfroth

The main source of doubt is that there are no extant examples from the archaeological record. However, I must point out that this doesn't just apply to this kind of helmet - there are no surviving helmets from England or Normandy from the period of the Battle of Hastings (there's in fact a gap in En...

Egfroth

Very pretty. What period and region are they from?

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Egfroth

"I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction"

Major Dennis Bloodnok, Queen's Forty-Third Deserters (retd.)

see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

There's another example in the Bayeux tapestry (one only) here (second guy from the right), but I'm pretty sure I've seen them elsewhere. ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction" Major Dennis Bloodnok, Queen's Forty-T...

Egfroth

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Egfroth

"I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction"

Major Dennis Bloodnok, Queen's Forty-Third Deserters (retd.)

see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

I've updated my article on the above after a very interesting e-mail which made me think long and hard about ventails and separate coifs. See it at http://www.angelfire.com/empire/egfroth/HastingsCoifs.htm ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the w...

Egfroth

The thing is, the meaning of the word "lance" has changed over the centuries. It originally meant a throwing spear (same word as "launch" - the French word "lancer" means "to throw"). Over the centuries, as cavalry technology changed from throwing spears to couching them, the word took on a new sign...

Egfroth

Have you looked at the Red Kaganate site? It's at http://www.geocities.com/kaganate/ and deals with most of the steppe races, and would probably be a very good starting point. You could also look at http://members.tripod.com/great-bulgaria/Central-Asian-Nomads-Unite/origins.html and also http://hsiu...

Egfroth

Baldric: "I have a cunning plan, my lord . . ." Blackadder: "Does it by any chance involve turnips?" The Byzantines seem to have used them as a matter of course, from very early on. There are contemporary pics from the 10th and 11th centuries thoough not terribly common) of them being worn in Wester...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Lord Thomas the Black: If I remember that passage correctly, it's the jawbone of an ass (donkey). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And not, as I heard in a very funny joke about...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Syrus Leigh: does anyone know how fast horn decays, as compared to wood? No, but I think you have to look at the conditions it was buried under - acidity of soil, access of air...

Egfroth

The real answer to that is "It depends". Different groups have different standards; some hit hard, some pull their blows. The only thing the various groups have been able to agree upon in Oz when we all get together for combined combats is that everybody must wear a helmet and gloves . . . The New V...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Cap'n Atli: Interesting tie-in with the Varangian Guards. The became predominantly English after that magic year 1066 due to a sudden influx of displaced Anglo-Saxon (by the...

Egfroth

Very true. A trap for newbies - how we all laughed! BTW, the current belief with the Sutton Hoo 'horn mounts' is that they are actually from the neck and uppe body of a wooden flask. I dunno how they came to this conclusion - something to do with the shape of the mounts, I think. ------------------ ...

Egfroth

And in Russia, it went on till at least the C13 - then there's the Varangian Guards . . .

Egfroth

Yep, there's quite a bit available, if you're prepared to look. Several contemporary pics exist - I have a collection of them, but I can't put thm on the Net at the monment cos my computer is down - I have to go to the public library to access the Net. There are some nice Frankish ons from before an...

Egfroth

Well, the probl;em is that none of the horns have survived in a good enough condition to be able to tell. Often the horn fittings survive without the horn itself. However, Byzantine and Frankish "oliphaunts" made of ivory and roughly contemporary with this were heavily carved with vines, animals, pe...

Egfroth

Well, in fact, the jury is still out on this one. Several re-enactment groups (and historians) claim the Saxons and Normans wore gambesons, but after a lot of searching for evidence of this, I can't find anything reliable to say that padded garments were worn in Western Europe before the Crusades. I...

Egfroth

I found the pic of the dream of Henry 1, and there are 2 shields - neither of them have the pattern you want. One has multiple chevrons, the other has multiple bends (diagonal lines) - I think they'd be described variously as chevronny and bendy. ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money...

Egfroth

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ulfgar137: Illiterate people don't write all over everything, I was wondering if I'd get a bite . . . http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif but seriously, the amount of pseudo-"runes" on artefacts that are just gibberish argues for a fairly high proportion who couldn'...

Egfroth

The teardrop/kite shield seems to have been adopted by the Normans after exposure to the Byzantines using them (going by the dates they seem to have appeared in the art work of the various races), but the Byzantines seem to have got them from the Egyptians . . . I don't really have any evidence for ...

Egfroth

No problem, so long as it's on its way. The old address has a "forwarding" set-up for the next 6 months, so it'll be forwarded to our new address. Can't wait! ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction" Major Dennis Bloo...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by AdmantiumExoskeleton: LOL! I'm afraid the art may be just a case of folks stylistically re-creating images they'd seen on "ancient" sources. If it is, there seem to be a terrib...

Egfroth

As far as I know, the earliest examples in pictorial sources of this type of pattern on a shield is about the mid 12th century. I believe there's a pic of the "Dream of Henry I" in which one of the knights has a shield with this pattern on it. But for the 11th century, the Bayeux Tapestry is probabl...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by guthrothr: They NEVER fought for the ottomans however, the last units fell in the defence of Constantinople in 1453 Guthroth<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Er, well, actually,...

Egfroth

What group do you belong to? I'm as picky about authenticity as the next man - more than most - but in my view, there are so many pictorial examples of them in use by 12thg century (in particular) Franks/Normans that I'd have no trouble at all seeing one in use. Your authenticity police must be real...

Egfroth

Keeping in mind that the great majority of Vikings were illiterate, and that spelling was a matter of choice till maybe the 18th century - right up to now, in some cases - gaol/jail etc etc. But I tend to agree with the last suggestion. ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a di...

Egfroth

I'd say you could make a nice sheet brass/bronze covering out of really thin shim, as they did occasionally back then (tho' it tended to be gilded), but don't be surprised if it gets messed up by the punishment of SCA combat. You could also plate it with gold, of course . . . ------------------ Egfr...

Egfroth

There is an online copy of the Bayeux tapestry at http://hastings1066.com/baythumb.shtml which will give you a good idea of what an 11th century Norman would have looked like - both in his dress and his armour. You should also get in touch with Hag 'Dik - a Hastings period re-enactment group in Norm...

Egfroth

There are two ways you can do it. You can either use "bifurcated" or "split" rivets, which are available commercially, and work the same way as a cotter pin, or you can use traditional rivets und put a washer or something of the sort between the leather and the end of the rivet. I've tried both, and...

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The "Norman bib", integral vs separate coifs - update