The Armour Archive

Egfroth

Wish I could help. I tend to concentrate on a leter period of Byzantium, so my stuff really isn't relevant to your own. I know what you mean about hidden armour, but as far as I can see, the suggestions above might be of help. Good luck with it. PS: I'm interested in those plate greaves. Do you have...

Egfroth

BECAREFUL! First he starts carrying good hearldry and next thing you know he will become intrested in such, which will lead to research in all matters medieval. FYI the Fleur de lys is most often associated with the royal house of france but was also associated with the english and to the Virgin Ma...

Egfroth

Interesting. Does he say why?

Egfroth

but anyway Egfroth "nor the Wends, or Heruls or Alemans or Vandals, Lombards, Franks " But the Lombards as Italian ones did, Lombard Street was named after the Italian bankers Touche'. Forgot about them (and shouldn't have.) It was a tiny bit later, though . . . Mind, plenty of vandals in London to...

Egfroth

Ryan - is this for SCA or metal weapons combat? The pennyround rule is, as far as I know, an SCA thing. Certainly none of the metal weapons groups I know of in Oz use it. If you're looking at splints and a breastplate, you'd be doing mid-14th century. As mentioned above, appropriate helmets would be...

Egfroth

[blush] I bet you say that to all the armourers . . .

Egfroth

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=54150

Egfroth

Sure, mate. I think you must mean the one below. Note that it's a bit foreshortened, due to the angle I'm holding it. The top is actually a lot rounder than it appears in the photo. It comes from an 11th century Byzantine crucifixion ikon - you can see it at m . And note also the other shields in th...

Egfroth

...I am not talking about puttees (wickelbands).... Cris I know, but the point I'm making is that functionally, there doesn't seem to be any difference between the two. If we're thinking of wrappings on legs as being for protection of the hose, why would there be any distinction between cross-garte...

Egfroth

Well, here's the sleeve design as promised. Hope it makes sense to you. Each "panel" is of two layers - a leather sheet with steel lamellae laced to it (the top ones are rivetted at the top, rather than laced). You'll have to work out the exact shape of each panel to cover your own arm, but it shoul...

Egfroth

In Romeo and Juliet (late 16th century), Shakespeare makes great fun of the heads of the Montague and Capulet families (both mature men, and therefore to be regarded as fuddy duddies) rushing to join the street battles with their out-of-date "long swords". So, maybe a generation or so before this ti...

Egfroth

Maeryk wrote:Is it easier to classify by period/area?

Like "gothic England", or "rennaisance Italy" etc?

Maeryk

But the Goths never got to England . . . Not the Visigoths, nor the Ostrogoths (nor the Wends, or Heruls or Alemans or Vandals, Lombards, Franks . . .)

Egfroth

Not bad. Very much in the right sort of artistic style, though I don't know that I've ever seen a tail go down and come back up on one of these. However, the amount of variation in the examples is such that I don't think it terribly out of place.

Egfroth

Griffin, Dunno if it has any bearing on the "cross-gartering as a status-symbol" issue, but "puttee" style leg-wraps are fairly common in Pre-Conquest English representations - worn by people on foot - so they don't seem to be exclusively to avoid damage to hose on horseback . Regarding their usa at...

Egfroth

No, that was the polish Hussars. Different crowd, and AFAIK overwhelmingly Catholic (the Hussites were rabid Protestant fundos). Similiar part of the world, but not exactly the same. IIRC the Hussites were based in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic and Slovakia), not Poland. Speaking of the Bohemians (...

Egfroth

Murdock wrote:I'm game

Make sure that it doesn't conflict with jehan's stuff Pennsic or Gulf Wars

Um . . . it should probably be pointed out that this event is to take place in Australia . . .

Egfroth

William - if you are basing your kit around the helmet, the period you're looking at is the early 13th century - probably the first two decades. The kit that goes with it would be as shown at m m m m and m The spaulders are really far too late for this interpretation - if you want to use them, I'd s...

Egfroth

Well, Craig Sitch (Manniing Imperial) is a mate of mine. His stuff is very high quality, but he DOES have a very long waiting list. And that's all I'm going to say on that subject. It's quite likely he got his models from the Maciejowski Bible, which is where he gets a lot of his stuff. But I can't ...

Egfroth

It definitely depends on the period. You should start by looking at "Period Explanations" at m and follow up which Crusade you're interested in. There was an evolution in armour over the centuries, and all the evidence we have suggests that Crusaders wore the same stuff as was worn in Western Europe...

Egfroth

It's got two prongs. so I guess it's a fork - of sorts. Personally, I don't see an "oven" - I see a hotplate in one scene, and in the other, a brazier with a pot on a a beam over a pair of upright supports.

Egfroth

Translation of the text above (the translator is a native-speaking German who asks that his clumsy English be forgiven): Handcraft is an important element of the town economy. This already applies to the early city, as Haithabu was. Everyone, looking at the remnants of activity relating to crafts in...

Egfroth

Well, for starters, you could look at m and m shows cooking quails on a spit. Then there's the gridiron for cooking fish at m. The overall site (at least the Byzantine bit) is at m I'va also attached a detail from a 10th century Byzantine fresco in Kappadokia - that Byzantine style forks were being ...

Egfroth

There was an interesting discussion on this subject at http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=49506

Egfroth

Ah, lovely! That looks great!

I'll have to see if i can laboriously translate it with my school dictionary - but I DO see the word Haithabu (Hedeby) in there.

Egfroth

Ah, lovely! That looks great!

I'll have to see if i can laboriously translate it with my school dictionary - but I DO see the word Haithabu (Hedeby) in there.

Egfroth

Have you a preference for the cooking gear of a particular culture? Living in Bari, perhaps you should be looking for Byzantine stuff. I have some pictures if you're interested. BTW, the famous Viking tripod which everybody makes actually seems to be a pretty rare item, restricted to a very wealthy ...

Egfroth

You'd probably leave out the "sunts" in the Latin - "are" is understood in the sentence. If you like, it sort of translates as "many the varnish, few the wood".

However, you should listen to a real Latin speaker. My Latin sucks.

Egfroth

Oh, yes pyr thalassion (sea fire) was a major element of the Byzantine arsenal. There are several contemporary descriptions of it, and quite a few instances of it being used to win battles, and not just on the sea, either. However, as the formula was a state secret, it hasn't come down to us, and an...

Egfroth

The splinted armour did exist. There have been steppe examples found, and there is a (golden?) jug found in Hungary with a warrior on it wearing splinted vambraces and greaves (from about the 10th century,I think). And the 12th century copy of the Byzantine Skylitzes Chronicle in the Biblioteca Naci...

Egfroth

The forming of the top has always been a problem, and there have been several possible solutions suggested. Hal's site is excellent, but it's for a round-top, so doesn't address the issue. My own spangenhelm construction page here has two possibilities - my own preference is for a small conical cap ...

Egfroth

Jeez! You're in EDEN!!! So, where do you practice combat? Do you go up to Sydney, or is there a local group?

I visited Eden many years ago (well, Bitangabee Bay, actually - Eden was visible, but I never went there). Lovely part of the world.

Egfroth

Hi guys. The helmet Xiotis is interested in is the one at http://www.geocities.com/egfroth1/ConcentricHelm.html

Can anyone help him? I don't know if it's to be for SCA or not - I'll let Xiotis answer that one.

Egfroth

Dammit! I dunno why, but two of the pics won't show up, and have got out of sequence. So, what you see is the Byzantine klivanion from a couple of weeks ago - Then my first lot of gear - judging by the size of the mailshirt, this would have been early 1988. Still a favourite photo of mine, for the l...

Egfroth

Well, even ignoring all the obvious anachronisms, the fact is that this guy's hauberk is ANKLE length! How much weight is there to pull the thing away from your leg? The Hastings era hauberks came barely to the knee. This would have made a difference, I suspect.

Egfroth

"Arrow fodder"?

X-Post. Byzantine armoured sleeve design diagram

Re: Criscross Garters (Bindings)

Byzantine armoured sleeve - design diagram