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Mord

knee fighting for the following reasons:

A. combat archery allows more participants.

B. combat archery can be reformed to deal with those who complain about it. Knee fighting really can't, imo.

C. my knees will thank me.

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Cool. Gonna hafta go.

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I have the leather weight-lifting belt that's sweat-stained or salt stained, etc. Is cleaning it with saddle soap ok? Or is there a better way?

Thanks,

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How much?

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Not to be overly critical, but I would at least require the mail to be rivited, in good shape, and well secured to the helmet.

I've worn a gorget through-out my fight "career" with little or no problems.

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The only reason in my mind to use plastic is price, I fight in this stuff, and since it's blue, I call it my battle thermos. Plastic does not pass heat. Say it with me, and think of Pennsic, "Plastic does not pass heat." I have the stuff in black and never had any problem with heat in it....

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Stephenson, I believe has written a book on this subject. You also might want to look in the "Journal of Roman Military Studies." I think their index is online.

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Bascially, I did the same thing a few months ago, but I used strips instead. It worked ok.

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The real problem, for me, is writing up the documentation.

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[quote="Derian le Breton"]If you're interested in this sort of thing, the OED is the place to look.

-Derian.[/quote

Look at the new one, btw.

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I have sitting on my desk at work, Kirpichnikov's work on the subject. Yeah, it's in Russian. Mord. Did you want to dispose of it -- what with its heathen tongue and all. I'll be happy to take it off your hands at no cost to you. Do you have any online samples of these manuscripts? Or what culture ...

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I have sitting on my desk at work, Kirpichnikov's work on the subject.

Yeah, it's in Russian.

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I have what some proabably think is a very odd theory. Don't all of you laugh at once. Simply stated: "Dukes are mutants." Now, admittedly at first glance this idea may seem worthy of taking me out behind the metaphorical barn and giving me what for. But hear me out. I largely believe that...

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More food? As I understand it, coffee became popular in Europe after the Battle of Vienna and the repulsion of the Turks. Story goes that someone (sorry, I forget the name), acting as a spy for the Christian Europeans was given the "recipe" for coffee from the Turks. After the battle, he ...

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Oh, good. I may actually have money this weekend.

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More food? As I understand it, coffee became popular in Europe after the Battle of Vienna and the repulsion of the Turks. Story goes that someone (sorry, I forget the name), acting as a spy for the Christian Europeans was given the "recipe" for coffee from the Turks. After the battle, he o...

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Gin. Gin was pretty much the cocaine of England in the 18th Century HOw the English could drink that crud... Actualy, the most direct culinary link to "advancement" was the birth of the British Empire. They needed worldwide conquest to get something decent to eat. (I think this needs attr...

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Gin. Gin was pretty much the cocaine of England in the 18th Century, so much so that a tax put upon it caused riots in 1736. I think the idea of coffee, tea, the potato, corn (maize), and chcolate as being a cause of intellectual ferment must be combined with various other historical event. Coffee a...

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Kublai Kahn and his Empire were parasites on the back of host civilizations ... You know, the last time I read the term parasitic culture was in the context of blaming a thousand-year-dead kingdom for the woes of post-Soviet Russia. Then describe how the Mongols were not, instead of insinuating tha...

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Look at the Stuttgart Psalter. A Facsimile was published in 1931. There are depictions of muscial insturments there. The Psalter is dated just past your 800--the 820s, I believe.

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Thanks for the links, Halv.

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An absolute agreement with Mord. Lacking any citations of women participating in Chivalric tournaments we have to say that we do not believe they happened. Certainly other cultures had warrior women, certainly women went to war at varied times and for varied reasons. But we aren't talking about tha...

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Tournaments date to the 11th century at the earliest, and Scandanavia isn't noted for its heavy cavalry during the Migration era. I don't know of any scholars alive who extend the Middle Ages to the Fall of Rome, but rather recognize the era as one of tribal migrations. A prerequisite of the Middle...

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(Start making it now, or establish a charcoal budget if you plan to obtain commercial chunk charcoal.) I have 100+ acres of woods (well I own 10, the rest is accross the road on my fathers place) I think I can round up a charcoal source:) Given a successful run, you will end up with a nice bloom of...

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I used to buy copper roofing nails, until they got to be too expensive ($14 a lbs.--ick!). Mord. A 1 pound box of rivets (plus burrs) from R.J. Leahy costs $19.25 plus shipping. 50 #9 x 1/2" rivets from McMaster-Carr is $13.06. Even the #12's are $10.58 and there are DEFINETLY less then 50 of ...

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As promised: Norbach, Lars Christian. "Prehistorical and Medieval Direct Iron Smelting in Scandinavia and Europe. Aspects of Technology and Society. {book}." Oakville, Connecticut: Aarhus University Press. (Proceedings of a conference held in 1999): ISBN: 8772887745. Clarke, Helen. "I...

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Konstantin the Red wrote:Mord, all I've ever been able to guess about their naming eccentricity is it's because the burrs fit on so tightly, without the clearance of a washer. It's still a guess.

Thanks.

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Currently reading about iron smelting via "bloomery" furnace. I'll put up a couple of cites tomorrow. Interesting stuff, but it really isn't answering my question--yet.

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I like the copper roofing nails also. I use #4 flat washers with them on leather to leather. I used to buy copper roofing nails, until they got to be too expensive ($14 a lbs.--ick!). As for the "problem" at hand, you could find washers (burrs--why do they call it that?) that fit the shan...

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Border Wars. This event is held in Finland, eight miles south of the Arctic Circle. In October. It takes almost a week to get there by train from the nearest airport. That far north, even the Swedes say "The cold is a little scary." All the fighting is done on a frozen river, and the rest...

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Lilies War = Anglo-Saxon/Norse Little archery, lots of smaller field battles My understanding is that the Norse had archery. In a way, for SCA purposes, it was more than the high middle ages -- because the nobles were doing it whereas later it seems to have been relegated to a lower-class weapon (a...

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History is a matter of finding sources, being able to read/examine them, and then being able to understand them. Some places at a certain time provided plenty of sources, and some don't. The skill of historians is being able to gather enough sources and then examining them as they are, not as you wa...

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I'm gonna stick with the vendel type. This was my reference: http://www.vendelbygden.se/html/vendel4.jpg Although you can't see how the bowl is constructed, but the cheek/face plate is somewhat the same as I did it. Also Knotwolf has done it same way. Here are some more pics That's the helmet from ...

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Hades' own soggy pit of despair. Ireland's the next one over, man. Scithius says: "How I loathe Brittania! "Join the Legions" they said! "See the world!" they said. "It's so green there!" they said. Yes, it's green here - the hills are green, the fields are green,...

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Shiz wrote:I'm interested on the Torvald full gauntlets and possibly the fully built shield unless that was the one Mord wanted.

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I'm interested in the blank.

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Cleaning Leather.

Re: Do wars have "personas"?