The Armour Archive

Egfroth

Ah, this is where you get to show off - if you're prepared to do the necessary work. The Viborg shirt (Viking, 11th century) is quite intricately made, but according to a friend of mine who has one, the extra work is well worth in in long-wearing properties, and it just looks so cool. For trousers, ...

Egfroth

Not sure what you mean . . . are you enquiring about crssbows that can be loaded with more than one arrow at a time? If so, I believe the Chinese had multiple shot crossbows, but I have no evidence to back this up - just "something I read" ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Fynreswolf: I am looking for any information on a Norse mace, a designed omni-directional mass weapon, this does not include clubs, cudgles, sticks or hammers. I have been able...

Egfroth

Try this one. Not only is it a simple set of plans, but it is an accurate replica of the type that were in use right throughout the Middle Ages. Although more complex and powerful ones came into use later in the Middle Ages, this type never stopped being made and used. I'm also sending you some cont...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jaeger: That's a really nice synopsis of their history. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> (Blush). I bet you say that to all the girls . . .

Egfroth

I take it you're talking about the real thing, not some re-enactment group or somethign, that happens to use the same name? In which case, they were also known as the Knights Hospitaller, after the Hostel of St John in Jerusalem in which they saw their origin in the mid 12th century. They always had...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gordon the Grey: You know Egfroth, If you have nothing useful to add to the thread, other than slamming the Sca maybe you could like NOT reply!!! Where Golfcart lives the SC...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Anradan MacEwan: Any thoughts or insight to a Scot's battle cry? circa 1350-1380. Lowland Scot. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I believe you use your clan name with "Aboo!" af...

Egfroth

Mykaru, I have some pics I can send you if you like, of stuff from the first half of the C14 with different visors, and a few of globose visors from the second half. I can't post them here because my website server isn't friendly with this forum (I use geocities - hey, it's free) Your server is hotm...

Egfroth

I know you'll hate me for this, but Norman conical helmets didn't have bar-grills, they had nasals . . . OH! You're with the SCA ! oh, well, that's different . . . http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the w...

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There's an 11th French century picture of St Maurice with a studded torso protection, that MIGHT be interpreted as a brigandine. But it's very equivocal, and could be interpreted several other ways . . . I really think for RELIABLE evidence of brigandines coming into common use, the post above is fa...

Egfroth

I hate to give people an opportunity to expand on the use of these things, but I can't pass up the opportunity to share this pic with you. It's supposed to be late 11th century Venetian. Look at the polearms on the top left!!! Three (count 'em) two-headed axes! As (apparently) full-length polearms!!...

Egfroth

Pleased to be able to help. The full website is at http://www.danetre-vikings.org.uk/Finds.htm - it has a wealth of really nice stuff, not only weapons. ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction" Major Dennis Bloodnok, ...

Egfroth

The "generic" battlecry used by the French for several hundred years seems to have been "Montjoie", which as far as I can make out, traces back to the Crusades, when the Franks of Outremer referred to Mount Sinai as "Mount Joy" (but in French, of course). There's an interesting mentionnin Shakespear...

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As far as I recall, the ice big langsax found in the Thames is 81.1cm long. Here's a picture of it . . . ------------------ 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 web...

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Hey, I really like the way you're able to stand sideways on the wall like that - or is it just me ? ------------------ 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 ...

Egfroth

errr.. do we have any evidence that *anybody* wore them - at all? ------------------ 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 WAS a discussuion about this, the earliest find of etching was (I think) the C14. Anything earlier would have been inscribed or inlaid. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Etching is a lot easier than inscribing, and produces a result that looks lot like it if you don't look at it close...

Egfroth

Halvgrim,

Have you any idea what's happened to your website "Viking-Pre-Viking helm presentation"? I can no longer access it.

Egfroth

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by drey1066ad: . . .the Ultrect Psalter produced in Rheims (Germany) circa 820AD. It has a number of warriors wielding and throwing them. A second source is the Winchester Psalter...

Egfroth

If you're talikg about Byzantine armours with a sash, the sash is usually worn half way up the chest (tho' not always), so I don't think this could be it. ------------------ Egfroth "I can hear the word money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction" Major Dennis Bloodnok...

Egfroth

Another example of horn armour is the Benty Grange helmet, 7th century Anglo-Saxon. It had an 8-panel iron framework, with horn infill panels and horn over the iron frame strips as well. The whole outer surface would have been horn. And Byzantium was not iron-poor. When the Western Europeans were us...

Egfroth

Sorry, I haven't the faintest . . . my only knowledge of such things is what has appeared in this thread - thanks, Drey, for the extra info, BTW. I CAN tell you, however, that the OE word for bigamy is "twywyfing" - isn't that great? Simple, elegant, and the meaning is obvious. Not like that Frenchi...

Egfroth

Swordsmith - what period and region are you looking at? Eating gear changed considerably over the centuries and from culture to culture. If you can narrow it down a bit, I may have some pics. I concentrate on Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Byzantine, particularly 11th century, tho' I have stuff from earlie...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Vallconnan: I am truly sorry if I did offend you, but your comment does not seem ti indictae it. But I did mean this seriously, and I would like to explain. I did not want ...

Egfroth

Any chance of some pictures? That would make it easier to check out the details.

Egfroth

I know of no instances where they actually worked together - rather they conducted an uneasy truce, at best, with raiding or outright warfare a lot of the time. The Turks gradually deprived the Venetians of their Mediterranean bases over the centuries. I doubt very much that they would have swapped ...

Egfroth

Oh, dear - all that work - to kit out a VAMPIRE????!!!!!

Aaaaaarrrrggggghhhh!!!!

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
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Egfroth

Half the Gokstad shields were painted black; the other half were yellow. The paint seems to have been applied directly to the wooden planks. Some years ago I wrote to the museum that holds the Gokstad ship. They were very willing to help, but unfortunately preservation techniques when the ship was u...

Egfroth

I got to hog the camera on "Foreign Correspondent", the "foreign affairs" roving corrspondent type programme of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the Australian equivalent of the BBC)when they did a piece on the Hastings 2000 re-enactment in the UK. I was walking down the hill (in armour) towa...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gundo: I don't think it's historical. It certainly can't be both Roman and medieval; aren't the terms mutually exclusive by definition? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Of cours...

Egfroth

I can't see that Nos 1 & 2 are different. What is the distinguishing feature? Am I missing some detail?

The other possibility is that the ventail only does up on one side (which from other depicrions it seems to do), and that wer are seeing 1 & 2 as the opposite side to No. 3.

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Egfroth: I've seen this scale hauberk close up, and while I commend the experiment,I thought at the time that it was godawful ugly. I would myself have gone for longer scale...

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I've seen this scale hauberk close up, and while I commend the experiment,I thought at the time that it was godawful ugly. I would myself have gone for longer scales, and less of them. But full marks for the attempt,; it forms, in my opinion, a basis for further experimentation. I've heard plenty of...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by IdÃ«val: "Annatar" http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif ! IdÃ«val<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yep, translates as "Lord of Gifts" - it's in the Silmarillion. -----------...