The Armour Archive

Donal Mac Ruiseart

The final was between Sir Vladimir and Earl Robert. Best of three, with no restrictions on weapons. Sir Vladimir, as is his wont, fought with glaive the entire time. Earl Robert fought with sword and shield. In the first match, Sir Vladimir struck Earl Robert on the head while Earl Robert simultaneo...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

By the way:

Aren't they poleaxes rather than pollaxes?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Saritor wrote:
Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:By a press gang?

That's navyed.

Not exclusively. Press gangswere used to impress men into armies and navies both. In Britain, it was pretty much restricted after 1800 to the navy; and that's the association most of us make.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Pray tell, what is the significance of the letter K?

EDIT: I looked at the Atzinger web site. Would it be in recognition of Lady Atzinger?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Lord Edward~

To my regret, time and distance prevent me from taking up this challenge of yours, but I salute it and you; and wish every blessing on yourself and your Crusade.

Your servant aye,

Donal Mac Ruiseart

This thread is useless without pictures . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I saw the Jugger Game, and Black Spear was one of the teams. No pics though, sorry.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

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Donal Mac Ruiseart

Two sequential posts, I know; but I've two very different things to say. I started fighting in AS IX. It was indeed in AS X that the ruling that women could not be excluded from heavy combat was made. At the time, there was a provision that those whose concept of chivalry prevented them from hitting...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Women do not have the right to fight. They have to earn the privilege the same way men do: They have to overcome their fear of brutal pain, obtain arms, and then ply them. Ya beat me to it. I was ready to post, 'How did women gain the right to fight heavy? Same as men did, by gearing up, training, ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

How Shall a man be armyed?

By a press gang?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

A stone is 14 pounds; Henry's final weight would have been 392 pounds or 178 kilos.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

OK, Killian, don't go getting all Irish on us, now . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

When you say a cat-a-mountain or mountain cat, are you thinking of a cougar or puma, or something like a Scottish wild cat? The blazon is spot on, except that there's no "u" in gardant. Just one of those peculiarities of heraldic language. If you get some artwork that depicts the kind of c...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

hrolf wrote:I saw one [cloven fruit] at a christmas party last year. Non-scadian, and filled with awkward goth kids.

Were they whole, or minced?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Zubeydah wrote:I appreciate your willingness to share them.

They would be of little use if I did not.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Zubeydah wrote:I would very much like to read these [articles]. Would you mind emailing them to me off list?

Not in the least!

In fact, I've already done so.

Your servant aye,

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Now to compound the mischief most entertainingly -- for language geeks anyway -- you have the long-form S. The kind of thing that in some typefaces made it look like our Colonial America forebearf fuffered from unfortunate fpeech impedimentf. To compound the confufion even more, thofe letters were ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

There was a rather extensive discussion on the subject of cloven fruits on Atlantia's mailing list recently. Opinions on the custom ran from Well, it can be neat if done with grace , to Aroint! Let it Lie! It is indeed a purely Scadian custom, invented by the lady to whom Duke Gavin refers, in Carol...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Saritor wrote:And even then, we've a few ornery duchesses who don't want to be escorted when they're called up.

We have such ladies in Atlantia also . . . and they are by no means all Duchesses.

Remember that Arthurian tale in which the answer to "What do Women Want?" was "Sovereignty."

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Lady Megan:

I have written several articles addressing the subjects you describe. Say (or rather type) the word, and I will either send them to you or post them here.

Your servant aye,

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I wear a gambeson but it's mostly to protect myself from my own body armour, which tends to chafe. the sleeves hace pockets for dense foam pads to give a little extra protection to my upper arms.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Actually it was reading that article that made me wonder.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I'm a little surprised at your reaction, Sir Vitus. I'd be expecting you to consider anything connected with combat archery to be evil.

Unless, of course, you were commenting purely on the technical discussion.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

As for riding to hounds and the like, I have seen "modern" sidesaddles and I can see how that can be. They have two curved horns, the lower one curving downward, the upper one upward. The rider puts her left foot in the stirrup and presses her left thigh up against the downward-curving hor...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Ladies, Seeing an article online about the construction and use of a Mediaeval style sidesaddle set me to wondering. When riding on a Mediaeval sidesaddle, your feet are essentially on a step. On a more modern sidesaddle, your left foot is in a conventional stirrup. In both cases, you've no foot on ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

That armour, made for the Prince of Wales in 1608, stands in stark contrast to another armor made for King Hendy VIII around 1540 (which is also shown on that site. The Prince's suit is a riot of embellishment and decoration. The King's is remarkable in its simplicity. Both are attributed to the Roy...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

. . . and riding a horse, not a griffin.

Adrielle, have you ridden aside?

The article about constructing the sidesaddle raised a question in my mind about controlling a horse when riding thataway.

Perhaps I should make it a separate post.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Kilkenny wrote:[T]he rule I was taught ages ago: Block the rigid weapons with the edge and the hinged weapons with the flat.

Hinged weapons?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Are you talking about the one on that airfield full of onion grass? That was a blast AND I believe the last Pointless before we called it Crusades. That's the one. Several groups (including House Bedford, if memory serves) had to move their encampments because they had set up on the runways (which ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

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Donal

(Who remembers the early Pointless War in the onion field)

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Donal Mac Ruiseart

Being an attendant on the Queen can indeed be interesting. But it can also be boring. It can be exciting. It can also be tiresome. It can be glamourous. It can also be - well, mundane! As several others have pointed out, a lot depends on the personality of the Queen herself and the sort of people wi...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I know that the Queen should never be alone, so no one can claim her dishonored (or something along those lines) The dictum that the Queen should never be alone 'so that no one can claim her dishonoured' is less a factor in the modern world than BitD. The idea of that was, that if the Queen always ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Kilkenny wrote:chuckle.. Graedwyn's younger than I am

Everyone's younger than you are, Gavin.

Except me

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Has anyon any experience with an armourer in the Ukraine called Steel Mastery?

Their material surely looks good!

Re: How Shall a man be armyed?

How Shall a man be armyed?

On Cloven Fruits

Re: Courtly Graces. . . hhmm? (and minor rant)

Riding Sidesaddle

Re: Lady-in-waiting - what do they do?

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