My bazubands are definitely unacceptable for my Romano-Brit kit, so I was thinking of making a pair of splinted greaves and hidden elbows, but I need to nail down the time frame they appeared.
About what time period did splinted greaves appear within a European context?
Splinted greaves?
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Splinted greaves?
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Per pale argent and purpure, a dragonfly counterchanged and on a chief sable a dagger reversed argent.
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. -Pierre Corneille
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Scotty Riopel
Per pale argent and purpure, a dragonfly counterchanged and on a chief sable a dagger reversed argent.
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. -Pierre Corneille
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If you're talking western/northern European, the only evidence is a single burial from Vendel era Sweden - 7th century.
As far as I've been able to research, that's it.
There is other evidence for them in Eastern Europe (Hungary about 10th century, Byzantium 6th to 12th centuries, Russia) and the steppes , but not in Western or northern Europe.
As far as I've been able to research, that's it.
There is other evidence for them in Eastern Europe (Hungary about 10th century, Byzantium 6th to 12th centuries, Russia) and the steppes , but not in Western or northern Europe.
Egfroth
It's not really armour if you haven't bled on it.
It's not really armour if you haven't bled on it.