The Armour Archive

Egfroth

I'm not an expert on sword types, but they look later to me. Though wheel and brazil nut pommels and really wide crossguards do occasionally appear early, in my experience they are much more characteristic of 13th century and onwards.

Egfroth

I'd love to read this thread, but Egfroth, that hugely long URL you posted makes it run off the screen. Could you PLEASE use m if you're going to post a URL that long? Effingham Sorry, mate. The site is here . But thanks for the tinyurl address. I'll put it in my favourites for future use. Unfortun...

Egfroth

There is also evidence of dagged mail in Pre-Conquest England, though I guess that's not really your period of interest.

Egfroth

Oh, very impressive. And you've done a very good interpretation of the griffins onto your shield. Nice work.

Egfroth

Very pretty indeed.

However, is this for Hastings? It seems a bit late, both the shield shape (too flat at the top) and the artistic style of the picture on the front.

But VERY pretty.

Egfroth

Here's the picture I was on about. I took it in the Tower of London in October 2000.

Oh, and if you look at the guys in the turbans in the second picture, you can see some in use. This is Spanish, 13th century. Sorry, I don't have any better identification.

Egfroth

Here's my take on it. The pauldron was attached in a way that may or may not be correct, but certainly works well. Very sneakily. I have no idea if it's correct, though there's a Khazar pauldron (it's at m - you should be able to see it if you follow the links) that has at least one part of the att...

Egfroth

Um . . am I the only person who thinks the axe-head should be mounted on the shaft the other way up?

Egfroth

You're probably thinking of the ones discussed at m If you want people who are simply not wearing hose at all, there are several figures in the Bayeux Tapestry - see the bottom panel at m , and the Julius Work Calendar and the Tiberius Work Calendar both show this. For example, see m I dunno about t...

Egfroth

Somewhere among my stuff I have a photo of an adarga I took when I was in the Tower of London 6 years ago. I'll see if I can locate it.

In the meantime, there are some photos in a discussion on another forum - at http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread ... ght=adarga

Egfroth

Nup. There's pretty much zero chance of these having been done at the dates you describe. Plate armour simply didn't exist at that time. The timing of the evolution of plate has been pretty much tied down, and it's WAY later than that. The problem is, there's nothing to stop people producing effigie...

Egfroth

He's joined the choir celestial . . .

Egfroth

I think you'll find Constantius I is 300 AD, not BC. He was also known as Constantius Chlorus (the white), and was the father of Constantine I (the Great), the founder of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Certainly, your coin does appear to have the name Constantius on it, but there were 4 Em...

Egfroth

I've been wearing turnshoes for years now - I've had to replace the worn-out soles of my Coppergate ankle-boots three times now - it'll be the last time - the leather in the uppers is finally beginning to crack. But even that could perhaps have been avoided by taking better care of the leather (basi...

Egfroth

Len wrote:Egfroth, I thought the French were the bad guys !

Not if you're French, as are the members of the Order of the Crown . . .

Egfroth

Hi, Kim! Have a look at the Gothic Eye site at - m - that page and the next one will cover the period you're interested in, Poitiers being in 1356. Regarding your second question, sorry, I can't help you with that. Maybe others with more information on the 14th century can be of more help. Are you i...

Egfroth

To start off with, you should go to the NEWBIE QUESTIONS ANSWERED page and look at the links under LATE TWELFTH CENTURY ARMS & ARMOUR (Third Crusade) . That'll show you some very good contemporary representations of the stuff in question, so you can get from "the horse's mouth" what they wore. Then ...

Egfroth

I may have found what I want! In Herodotus there is a mention of Tymnes who is the Steward of Ariapeithes, King of the Scythians. And I was hoping for a permutation of Tim/Timothy (my real name). So... Tymnes, Steward of Ariapeithes I know an SCA personna cannot be a actual historical person so I w...

Egfroth

Now that I think about it... I can tell you how you got that slightly twisted frame and how to avoid it in the future. I'm guessing... guessing mind you... that you did one dome panel at a time... dished it out, completely riveted it in and moved on to the next. If that's how you did it, I'll note ...

Egfroth

Anybody in the UK able to make it to this? The next in the series of Bede's World Saturday talks takes place this Saturday, 27 May, at 12 noon. Richard Darrah will be speaking on "How the Anglo-Saxons worked wood", and will be demonstrating timber working techniques with replica tools based on excav...

Egfroth

audax wrote:Lord, I love this stuff. I love talking to people who love history like I do. Well met, Egfroth.

audax

Moi aussi, mon vieux. Moi aussi.

Egfroth

I hate you

Egfroth

You could just be Timotheos (he who fears [honours] the god - timo = I fear, theos (not theus, which is Latinized Greek) = god). Interestingly, the word "the" would normally be before your name in Greek usage - you would be ('o timotheos) - the Timothy. If someone was talking to you, he'd call you o...

Egfroth

In the 11th century Chronographia of the Byzantine statesman Michael Psellos (otherwise known as Fourteen Byzantine Rulers , in the Peter Smith translation, is this passage that indicates the Normans of Italy were also girly-boys . . . Surrounding these again we saw the light-armed troops without ar...

Egfroth

This part I know, I just didn't know his English name... The picture of the sallet said ...the handsome, and when I used this version Konstantin the Red said that it's ...the fair. This caused my confusion. Or is there a hidden joke somewhere I don't understand due to my poor English? No, "The Fair...

Egfroth

Isaac, the picture of the overseers being whipped, with their hose falling down, is 11th century English. BTW, the original of the Charles the Bald picture is below. Buran and MJBlazek - to answer your questions, the guy's knees are blue in the original, so I think we can be pretty sure he's not bar...

Egfroth

The c. 1360 "Illuminated Chronicle" has a lot of good stuff in it - both civilian and military. After King Istvan (Steven) westernised the Magyar military in the 11th century, there was a high proportion of heavy cavalry, and they looked much like those of anywhere in Western Europe, with a few regi...

Egfroth

There are quite a few pictorial records of this weapon (and similar ones) if you keep your eyes open The pole weapon second from the right at m seems very like a goedendag, and they turn up every now and then in other contemporary illustrations. There seems to be another one at m - click onto the li...

Egfroth

I don't understand the problem. If you have looked at the de Liebaart site, you should also have seen pictures of actual surviving goedendags there. See m My own interpretation of the carving would be for something rather heavier in the shaft and more "club-like", but generally I agree with what the...

Egfroth

Depends on the voltage. Put enough EMF across a pair of terminals and NOTHING is non-conductive!

Egfroth

I envy you folks that have axes that look like real axes. I was going to make one and give up my "scaginata" because I wanted to look more period and actually use a "real" approximation of my weapon. Then I pussed out because I'm an egotistical fighter who likes to "win". I wish they would make tha...

Egfroth

baste the skin with a mixture of soya

Soya? SOYA???

Egfroth

See also http://www.geocities.com/egfroth1/Wacky ... 6424880530 - some of these are very likely to be extremely uncommon weapons on the field, but hey, they look really cool!

Egfroth

Not as far as I know. But it might be worthwhile to remember that you're looking at a different culture - the Germanic races - from those who used oblong shields. It might simply have been the "normal" way of making a shield in their culture. Certainly, there is AFAIK absolutely no evidence of any o...

Egfroth

I'm sorry, but every time I see this sort of stuff I think of the Swedish chef from The Muppet Show

"Bork! Bork! Bork!"

Seminar today on Anglo-Saxon Woodworking techniques