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Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

@Zippy: Really? It seems that theres an either or with these. Either you break a lot of swords, or you don't. You break alot, our local Count doesn't, and he's a big guy who could drive pilings with his blows.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Thanks!

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

What ae the prices and options on a one piece hilt from By My Hand?

-Ivan

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

I'll take one.

Payment Sent.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

How much are they?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Mostly it just 'getting the story right' that confounds me. Its hard for me to write, thus my style of speaking directly to the reader (which happens to confuse & confound the teacher a little).

So far in the class I have a 'B' and I will be happy just to pass it truthfully.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

@Alric: Good idea but this is for Eng 101 and I have a writing disability (thus the 3 part paper).

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

It's more a story paper than anything else. I just need to tell a good story. Something that is a god simple story, or that tells a good simple story, as the last part of the paper is only to be 3-4 double spaced pages long.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

None really. I'm just using the battles to be illustrative of the topic as there is nothing in this world I want to know bad enough to do a 10 page research paper so I am writing 3 3pg supported-with-lite-research story papers.

It's the final paper(s) for Eng 101.

-Ivan

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

I have a paper due in 5days that will be in 3 parts: Horse Combat, Foot Combat, & the English Civil War.

I've got the battle for Horse Combat (Hastings), and the battle for foot combat (Lake Peipus), but what I need is a good, simple battle for the 1st English Civil War.

Got ideas?

-Ivan

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

I have a paper due in 5 days that will be in 3 parts: Horse Combat, Foot Combat, & the English Civil War.

I've got the battle for Horse Combat (Hastings), and the battle for foot combat (Lake Peipus), but what I need is a good, simple battle for the 1st English Civil War.

Got ideas?

-Ivan

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

His Highness Prince Achilles of Sparta: http://meowzettes.com/movies.htm#Achilles

His most recent finals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkCaep8MNlE

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Now I know what I'm going to buy with some of this new job cash!

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Where might I find info on the language itself so that I might be able to start into leaning to write, speak, & read it?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Wouldn't it be seriously cool to see an axe like this one?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Which Alphabet would I use to spell it in say 8th century pre-russia?

Can it be found here?: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/runic.htm

-Ivan

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Fun fighting is fun fighting. As long as you don't break me the I'm cool. My first rapier practice in Sacramento I got told this: "Boy I love fencing you heavy fighters. Cause I can actually hit you & you don't care. You don't think it's excessive" "You were hitting harder than yo...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Will you have them with you at Cynaguan Investiture or Purgatorio?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

also anything with Duke Uther is Going to Be Violent. Actually there is one fight vid with Duke Uther that kinda sucks (not violent) and I am the reason for it. See, I went up to fight him and 11 years of fighting went out the window as I lost the intimidation check. He was fine, I was not. I have ...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

As Duke Paul can attest, A local Knight by the name of Sir Khaalid had a method (which I'm not sure is even legal anymore) and it went like this: Take a 2" diameter PVC tube with a cap at one end and a screw on top at the other which is just a bit longer than your rattan. Put your rattan in the...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Thanks.

BTW just to be sure, an incorrect variant would be 'Rautt'skegg yes?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Aeschine should have them up soon yes?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Ducal Advice:

"Fight your game, don't fight theirs. Your opening shot should be comfortable it should arise from who you are. If you are a decent fighter, and the shot feels right, then it is the right shot."
-Crown Prince Rolf of the West.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Nice!

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Hex shields? Do you mean hexagonal, or the "H-shield"?"

Perhaps.

I mean like the one seen here.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Has anyone any pictures of somebody fighting with one of those 18"x 36" Hex shields that some gauls & celts used?

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Also it does depend on the shield type and grip used. My kits is a little wide for me at 22", yet the center-grip round I plan to make will be 29" across. Shield type & purpose has a lot to do with it. I was reading that some Norsemen thought that a center grip round shield that was 24...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

If you look at someone holding a shield, and think/say "That is a huge/small shield" what exactly are you basing that judgement on? Ah, I base it on the relationship that exists between the shield and its user. In my fight with Malyn I remember quite clearly thinking that she was using wa...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

I think you kinda answered your own question (and quite well too I might add). At Coronet I fought Malyn Edwardis (5'2" 100lbs) and Duke Uther (6'6" 300lbs) . Malyn's shield seemed small for her and would have been a buckler for Uther & Uther's shield seemed fine for him but would have...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Sorry, not Dwarven Forge, but the Dwarven Smithy.

They are rigid like rattan somewhat, and yet a bit whippy.

-Ivan

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

I wanted, for a long time in my local HEMA group, to wear my aluminum mitten gauntlets when we were sparring with the nylon wastes that Dwarven Forge makes. Through the hockey gloves I was wearing I did *something* pinky that made it swell up for 2 weeks and has not quite healed in the 2 months sinc...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

If this fellow in the west is using SCA type steel gauntlets with nylon wasters to do some form of historical combat, he just doesn't get it.

We that was uncalled for.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Count Gemini of the West Kingdom, the Modern Medieval, & DeGrendelous Martial Arts uses his SCA legal gauntlets with his students when they do WMA stuff with the Rawlings Synthetics.

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

you're craftsmanship is so complicated for a newbie to comprehend. Well, this newbie. How does one begin a journey of a thousand miles? Large construction jobs are not done with a few large complex steps but many small & simple ones. I am no skilled maker but I have built my body armour, half-g...

Thorsteinn Raudskeggr

Also there is this:

http://http://www.scabastardsword.com/

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