How would one create an SCA legal rig for an archer who fought at the Battle of Poitiers?
When was that anyway? Mid 1300's?
Englis Archer at the Battle of Poitiers
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Wulfgar Widfarend
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COP under a period tunic with concealed leg/knee armor, topped off with leather elbows and demigauntlets?
If you were early period I could help, but not I know of later period England.
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At the door of the hall, Wulfgar duly delivered the message: "My lord, the conqering king of the Danes, bids me announce that he knows your ancestry; also that he welcomes you here to Heorot and salutes your arrival from across the sea.
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If you were early period I could help, but not I know of later period England.
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At the door of the hall, Wulfgar duly delivered the message: "My lord, the conqering king of the Danes, bids me announce that he knows your ancestry; also that he welcomes you here to Heorot and salutes your arrival from across the sea.
[br]-Beowulf, lines 388-94
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Thorgrim
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Poitiers was fought in September 1356.
This harness will be a challenge to do well, but I believe it can be done.
The typical archer's defense would be an aketon or gambeson which may be knee-length or shorter, worn either over or under a mail hauberk in some cases; an open-faced bascinet, with a cloth or mail aventail; and a bracer for the left forearm. Arm defenses and body protection could be hidden under the gambeson.
I've yet to find evidence of leg defenses. Perhaps a very close-fitting wingless poleyn could be hidden under some bulky hosen without looking too odd.
Good luck! Please let us know how it goes.
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Deus Suos Cognoscet
Company of Saint Olaf
This harness will be a challenge to do well, but I believe it can be done.
The typical archer's defense would be an aketon or gambeson which may be knee-length or shorter, worn either over or under a mail hauberk in some cases; an open-faced bascinet, with a cloth or mail aventail; and a bracer for the left forearm. Arm defenses and body protection could be hidden under the gambeson.
I've yet to find evidence of leg defenses. Perhaps a very close-fitting wingless poleyn could be hidden under some bulky hosen without looking too odd.
Good luck! Please let us know how it goes.
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Deus Suos Cognoscet
Company of Saint Olaf