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by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:13 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Looking for Illumination
Replies: 6
Views: 223

I've seen trained squirrels, but be sure there isn't any legal problem with capturing and keeping a "wild animal" in captivity. I'm not saying there IS any such problem, but I know that there are certain animals that are illegal to capture or that require a license.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:59 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: is this technique a legal shot?
Replies: 25
Views: 943

Cailin wrote:Right hand, to the left side of opponents head.

Hmmm . . . "right" and "left" always confuses me when talking of this sort of subject. Is the "right" in this case the thrower's right or the target's right? With the sword hand palm up or palm down?
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: KABONG!
Replies: 9
Views: 578

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Shucks, I was expecting a git-arr!
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:05 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Where to start Heraldry
Replies: 10
Views: 219

It was a custom to make seals using the letters of one's name (in Arabic script) not necessarily in the correct order but in a way that's pleasing to the eye. You could do the same with a motto or a phrase from the Koran - as long as you can find out what the Arabic letters look like. Duke Cariadoc ...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:45 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Biblical-Era Nail Found with Templar Remains
Replies: 60
Views: 1209

the Romans used poles, not crosses. I have seen those who posit that, but I've also seen those who posit the use of crosses, though they were more in the shape of a T than a so-called Latin Cross (†). Those of the latter group also posit that what the victim carried to the execution site was the ...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:19 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Biblical-Era Nail Found with Templar Remains
Replies: 60
Views: 1209

Using my own hand in that position as a gauge, it looks to be about 5 inches long. My wrists are about 2 inches front to back, so a nail that size would go a good 2-12 to 3 inches into the wood after going through one. Would a couple such nails be enough to hold a man's weight? Some maintain that th...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:36 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Biblical-Era Nail Found with Templar Remains
Replies: 60
Views: 1209

Biblical-Era Nail Found with Templar Remains

Archeologists have found a Biblical-era nail carefully preserved with the remains of three men, at least one a Templar.

Here's the article.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:22 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Fighting with a C bag
Replies: 4
Views: 477

A friend of mine had a colostomy several years ago. He still fights. It's not really a bag; it's more like a little plastic box. He incorporated a guard for it into his armour - essentially a metal mixing bowl. I think the worst that's likely to happen is it would make an awful stinky mess if it got...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:25 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Judging an A&S event.....
Replies: 39
Views: 662

Thomas Powers wrote:I guess some places use a rubric so they can get it rite?

Ooooohhh, good one, Thomas. Keep it up and you'll be surprised how rich you'll become.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:51 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Latin Translation Help Please
Replies: 3
Views: 105

My first reaction was to replace puellae with virgines , because I had always thought puella referred literally to girls - immature or prepubescent. But in checking it out, I find that apparently it extended to young women in much the same way "girl" does in English. And although virgo doe...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:51 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Heraldry help please
Replies: 15
Views: 346

[I]f the blazon were "Per pale indented AZURE ... lozengy argent and sable." would the indention or dancetty necesarily follow the same angle and peak spacing as the lozengy or would you have a different saw-tooth profile between the blue and the rest of it? If the field of the dexter sid...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:55 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Heraldry help please
Replies: 15
Views: 346

Re: Heraldry help please

Which is why there's a difference (and a different effect) between having the dexter side be "lozengy sable and argent" and "lozengy argent and sable." Actually, Eff, it's the sinister side that's lozengy. As drawn, it would be "Per pale indented sable an increscent argent ...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:31 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Help ID this Crusader relief
Replies: 12
Views: 383

Something occurs to me . . . The Cross of Lorraine was used by the French Resistance during WWII. Charles de Gaulle was the leader of the Resistance and later became President of France. He was called "Le Grand Charles," which renders literally "Big Charles" but could also mean &...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:47 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Help needed identifying a sword
Replies: 24
Views: 467

OK I reallly missed with the names. I agree that the names are intended to present the blade as made by Tomas De Ayala or at least his shop. But the symbols look even more like zodiacal symbols to me. The one that looks like an O and C conjoined looks to be the planet Mercury. The other, though, tha...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Help needed identifying a sword
Replies: 24
Views: 467

The man's name on one side and the woman's on the other suggest to me that it was a wedding or anniversary gift, perhaps to an officer. No clue about SWS. Acronym Finder didn't produce any likely results. I'd like to get a closer look at the symbols next to the name in the central fuller. Are they t...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:14 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Help ID this Crusader relief
Replies: 12
Views: 383

I would accept that it's a romanticised depiction, but of whom? The cross-staff held by the man behind the king looks like the Cross of Lorraine, as does the design on the teardrop shield behind the king (the king's shield-bearer, perhaps?); and the spear (apparently) held by the king does look like...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:30 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Wheelchair combatants
Replies: 25
Views: 687

She's wheelchair bound . . . Myself would be disinclined to call a person "wheelchair bound" or "confined to a wheelchair." Terms like that make it sound like a wheelchair is some sort of confining or limiting device, when in fact it's an enabling device, providing a person whos...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:12 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Color of my belt, do I need to change it?
Replies: 67
Views: 1920

zippy wrote:if you were made a squire, would you consider the same belt a squire's belt?


Well of COURSE it would be a squire's belt in that case.

If he were a squire, and it was his belt . . . <ducks>
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:48 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Trying to identify an image
Replies: 8
Views: 346

Interesting that the web site for the winery claims that the image is based on a fresco on the castle wall that was destroyed during WWII. I rather doubt that an Italian castle would have the image of a German knight on its wall like that, though you can never be sure. BTW the chequy pattern on the ...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Val Day Roll Call 2010
Replies: 29
Views: 531

Ah, thank you. Bit too long of a trip for me, I'm afraid. I find the "no day camps" rule a bit puzzling. Day shades would be redundant at an indoor event, but no storage boxes; does that mean someone couldn't bring his armour in something like this? http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/3866...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:38 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Val Day Roll Call 2010
Replies: 29
Views: 531

<--doesn't even know what event those fellows are referring to.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:37 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Maureen's Portrait in Armour
Replies: 10
Views: 777

Was there a particular reason why the artist kept the spectacles?
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:11 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Round Tables
Replies: 5
Views: 290

In Barber and Barker's Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages " (cited above), the Glossary contains the following explanation of Round Tables (p.213): Round Table: Festivity lasting several days with strong Arthurian overtones. Bohorts, jousts, and sometimes a tournament...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:02 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: New dagger
Replies: 9
Views: 427

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The Vorpel Blade went "snicker-snack!"
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:57 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: --Chicago-- Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!!
Replies: 48
Views: 1207

That's a very impressive looking place. What in the world IS it?
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:10 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you find/measure the precusion point?
Replies: 11
Views: 333

How to Find the Sweet Spot

Sir Hilary of Serendip demonstrated this simple technique. It's a bit difficult to explain without demonstrating, but I'll make the attempt. First, think of what happens if you take a flexible piece of plastic and shake it rapidly. It will vibrate around one or more "nodes," pivot points w...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:51 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: New dagger
Replies: 9
Views: 427

That looks elegantly wicked!
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:41 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Wheeled Armour Chest
Replies: 98
Views: 2885

A "Lesson Learned"

One thing I wish I'd done to mine, and may attempt to backfit: Somehow shape the undersides of the end handles (or at least the one on the wheel end) to enable me to get a grip on it when extracting it from the van. When in that position (wheelbarrow handles away from the tailgate) it's a bit tough ...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:45 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Wearing a Token
Replies: 27
Views: 846

Like mail and maille, many spell them differently: that headgear without the final e, the responsible adult with. I think the latter connotation might have derived from the former - where old people who continued to wear the by-then-out-of-style chaperons got dubbed "chaperones" in the sam...
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:23 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Best sheaths
Replies: 29
Views: 864

kaiö:

Though I don't own any of Sir Vitus's scabbards, a friend of mine does.

It's excellent.

And his are custom made and designed for SCA swords or daggers.

Don't try to find gold in a coal mine, my friend. Go to the proper source.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:07 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Horse Armour
Replies: 2
Views: 278

No I didn't, but cool it is. Just thought it was worth some attention.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:49 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Fantasy Armor?
Replies: 17
Views: 1014

With the appropriate attachment gear (i.e., straps) capable of being locked, it's the male version of a chastity belt.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:07 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Horse Armour
Replies: 2
Views: 278

Horse Armour

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Interesting horse armour here.
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:56 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Pics of Joust or Melee
Replies: 7
Views: 492

I suppose Rene of Anjou's Book of the Tournament would almost be too obvious to mention . . .
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:17 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Light a candle.
Replies: 15
Views: 908

A candle burns in Atlantia.

May Carol's soul rest in peace and may light perpetual shine upon her.

And may her family and friends find strength, peace, and serenity in this time of loss.

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