The Armour Archive

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Vermin wrote:So what happens when you Google bacon AND porn at the same time?.......

Well, you probably won't learn anything about the Middle Ages, but then again, I'm not really willing to try...

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hmmm....and, again, hmmm....... Back in the day when my beard had no gray and testoserone was happily flowing through my blood-stream in mass quantities, I knew damn little about Middle Ages. To be honest, I know damn little about many things, and was probably more interested in fulfilling my testor...

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Fur.

I suspect that, as usual, this wasn't universal, but there is evidence that fur pelts were traded (we found claws at Birka); one could reasonably infer that some pelts were kept by the traders for the winter.

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Mord : Yes, you are correct: suppression is very much the wrong word. Also, be careful with simplying gnostic = Eastern Church... the folks we now call Orthodox would have very strong words to say in the face of that. Aengus : Yes, and there's a context for that, being that the Gutenburg Bible was ...

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Suppression of education by the Church? Is this a joke? Not really, Russ. Suppression is probably the wrong word. However, many have blamed Christianity for the loss of the Roman/Helenistic/Classical form of education, discipline, and philosophy. Amianis Marcellus (sp?) is famous for complaining th...

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Why do you have to ask this question on a Friday afternoon, Sean? I was looking so forward to giving my memory chips and the organic CPU that is my brain a rest. It's really rather foolish to make any generalization about "Europe" after the "Fall" of the "Western Roman Empir...

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usualy food manufacturing or processing facilities. check with the local car wash as well. another option would be to post to both the local SCA group and Craigslist or similar comunity based site. I don't reccomend that you use old HDPE barrels from car washes for food. Much of the detergaint and ...

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Fair warning, if you're going to connect those dots, you've got a LOT of steps in between. I agree. I don't think you will find very much written on specific industries like armoring. Agreed. However, one could look for information on things like the availability of miners. After all, if you can't ...

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You might want to look here: barhus.org

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Keep in mind that the wealthier a person was, the more likely they were to have a sword instead of an axe. I believe, and Mord can definitely correct me if I'm wrong, that while axes were not uncommon, they were not the chosen weapon of the professional soldier and with the exception of something l...

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For me the answer is yes. One of the biggest problems as knight is not teaching, but out-fitting novices. I live down the block from a car-wash, so barrels are easy to get. I've made all sorts of gear with this stuff, mostly body protection. On the whole it's cheap, reasonably easy to make with simp...

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At my folks' home there's an in-ground pool. We had very simple rules: 1. No Drowning. 2. No Glass (Vinal liner + Glass = leak =$) Later on, it was decided to add: 3. No armor in the pool area. These simple rules and the reasons behind them have pretty much guided me. If the tool or process will hur...

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Finding any in depth information on Scandinavia (and its various "nations," being Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Gotland, & Finland) in the Early Middle Ages is a job that takes patience. I suggest that you look at "I wanna be a viking" in this forum. There are lists of books there...

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Coins are ridiculously complex. God help me, I love 'em so... How about coins associated with the Danegeld in the pre-Norman invasion era? John Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus www.mron.org And now it gets even more complex! Danegeld, if it were coin, would probably be of Anglo-Saxo...

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It didn't surprise me that the dirhem would be a coin found in Viking "seachests." Now comes to questions of marketability. Are there coins that are more European in origin that fill the bill? But you chose as one coin representative of a common currency in the "viking-era"--whi...

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Oh, btw, you might want to check out David Brown books.

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Rosedahl's "The Vikings." Gywn Jones' "A History of the Vikings." Any Saga translations. Pirenne's "Mohammad and Charlemagne." "The two lives of Charlemagne" (Penguin) "The Song of Roland" A good translation of "Beowulf." Mord.

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That makes sense. Did Dirhems flow back to northern Europe or were they melted down or spent in the levant? John Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus www.mron.org I suspect both. Around 2000, I was asked to find a coin from around the year 1000 for a Pennsic badge. I found a coin from S...

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eljungrande wrote:thanks mord

You're welcome. Please answer my question.

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What have you read?

I would reccomend looking at Nordic Archaeological Abstracts for citations. I would also reccomend looking at Nicolaysen's Gokstad book and some the publication about Kaupang.

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Because it was an easily transportable source of silver and the "Vikings" had things (fur, amber, slaves, etc) that folks down south wanted.

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The Islamic Dirhim.

I'd look at silver/coin hordes to begin with.

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Those are some good answers, Mord. I like them even better because I agree. 7. The bias of the archaeologist(s). Archaeology is full of political pressure, which wants to color the interpretation of what is found. The common trait I notice is the compelling need to make a pronouncement about what t...

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Got it! Please PM me your snail-mail address. I'll be able to get this out to you friday, when I can visit the post office.

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Turns out the Free Library (where I work) has "Ars Islamica." I'll check on your citation latter today, and get back to you.

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Let me work on it.

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I have spent my fighting career trying to master the "stumble, stumble, throw, throw" style...

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Try reading "Viking Art." Clever title, eh? There is a shorter discussion of the viking art in J. Brondsted's "The Vikings." Also, there's Willson's "Late Saxon and Viking Art." "Germanic Art during the First Millenium AD" by Holmqvist will turn your brain int...

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Nice Chucks! Whats up with that?

About the "Chucks." I remember looking at him, and complementing his footwear. He said he had them custom-made. There's a website.

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...This is context of the graveyard, and many have concluded that the chamber graves represent a local upper class with a warrior elite and important connections to the outside world. You've touched on an idea that I question - that we are looking for "pure Norsemen", not influenced by th...

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...This is context of the graveyard, and many have concluded that the chamber graves represent a local upper class with a warrior elite and important connections to the outside world. You've touched on an idea that I question - that we are looking for "pure Norsemen", not influenced by th...

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...This is context of the graveyard, and many have concluded that the chamber graves represent a local upper class with a warrior elite and important connections to the outside world. You've touched on an idea that I question - that we are looking for "pure Norsemen", not influenced by th...

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Mord I'm a bit dubious to ascribing iron wire drawing to early medieval times. The wrought iron used at that period was generally quite hetereogeneous and would provide a great problem to use drawplates for reduction. It provides quite a lot of problems just smithing it hot! I've run across many pe...

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Folks,

I am going to be on vacation for the next week(turkey-day duties), so any answers, thoughts, or conclusions will probably have to wait.

I have been giving some thought to a conclusion. I will probably spend some of my time off writing it.

Thank you,

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To continue: The information I posted from Birka is incomplete. There are other graves with shields parts that can be examined. Peter Beatson lists these graves. I have heard that another shield has been recently found in Denmark, and that it's made of fir wood (a conifer). The diameter of this shie...

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