The Armour Archive

Mikael

Loud complaining. Exploring crafts. Marshaling and heralding. More complaining.

Mikael

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/s960x960/11125267_10152918487533282_156411239088746917_o.jpg It might require some mail. :-) Armet and spaulders by a talented Finnish armorer Marko Saari. Leg armour needs fiddling to work properly. (Cheap greaves and sabatoms don't work without t...

Mikael

I used as my reference Ruusuvuori, Anssi: Puukon historia. Apali Oy. Tampere 2009
isbn 978-952-5026-93-1. Excellent tome, but in Hinish and probably hard to get to Your hands on.
The Turku puukko is on show at Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova museum, but data is not online anywhere as far as I can tell.

Mikael

Earliest surviving stacked bark handles I've seen in Finnish material seem to be from late 18th century. There is at least one 14th century knife of puukko type dug up from medieval Turku that had full tang and costruction that would have accepted stacked construction without any trouble - but had a...

Mikael

They have polyester filling.
Hot as hell.

Mikael

On Fabri armorum longswords.
I have one that passed the flex test.
Another failed to flex enough with added weight. ( It flexed about enough under its own weight and adding the test weight failed to produce the required difference. Might actually have been too whippy.)

Mikael

That is already past - the tourney is in 11 days.

Mikael

His renown this side of the Sea is perhaps not yet equal to his prowess.
In a dispersed Kingdom it takes time to build a reputation.

Mikael

Odds, anyone?

Mikael

The Heralds have tirelessly carried Summons To Men at Arms of Greatest renown and finally the Day has come all answers have been received. Entering the field in the magnificent CHAMPIONS of DRACHENWALD tourney will be the following men of great hardiness and valor, knights of sharp prowess and no re...

Mikael

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! This Summer to come, Year XLVIII 21th June by the Fair Castle Ludvigstein a Great Deed of Arms shall take place. Under the eyes of fair ladies and good gentles of Drachenwald and guests of foreign lands Ten puissant men, of greatest renown in the Dragon Realm will meet eac...

Mikael

Another pic of the sheath. http://www.kaspaikka.fi/savonlinna/muinaispuku/sivut/euraveitsi.jpg The knife is actually rather modest in size. Kalevalakoru sells that as part of a set that has other jewelry of the dress as well http://www.kalevalakoru.fi/korut/kuvasto/muinais_ja_kansallispuvut/muinaisp...

Mikael

In Drachenwald I have been taught that a strike to a leg in Cut and Thrust is a kill. The other rapier may be a different story.

Mikael

Excellent thing that the shield was actually used.
I can understand the need to protect such pieces of art - but to take them to the field despite the value one places on them, knowing they are risked shows true chivalric extravagance. Especially if one chooses the appropriate venues to do this.

Mikael

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Slaget-o ... 7201780518

Verdict released the defendant and made the other party pay for the costs of the trial according to defendants FB posting.
Looks like the only reasonable conclusion.

Mikael

Israel - US 3?
2-0 to Israel.

Mikael

My gut feeling would be to include into the bibliography with MS number or equivalent of the original and the data of the online repository as completely as possibly. And be happy for being able to stack the biblio with some real primary sources. The rules depend on the discipline and publication th...

Mikael

Left hooking with the edge to the grill is a big nono where I come from. Charging over or through enemy with shield in front is allowed and actively practised. How much running before the impact is allowed seems to vary. In my limited experience You cannot run like maniac if You wish to get coherent...

Mikael

I've had decent luck with white and red linen fighting surcoat.
But I was rather worried before first wash.
Even though both had been washed beforehand to prevent shrinking.

The contrast is amazing, even after the white is battlestained.

Mikael

None died - 15 got symptoms, two had to stay overnight at the hospital. Symptoms included puking, diarhhea and stomach cramps. Patients were aged between 70 and 90. Amount of copper in glög was over 260 mg/l.
Glög used was non-alcoholic, but higly accidic.

Mikael

2009, Finland culprit was the waterheater used for heating the stuff. The coppercoil, hidden behind stainless steel plate had corroded visibly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_toxicity There was some story a couple Christmases back about several people being severely poisoned drinking mulled win...

Mikael

That problem could be remedied with a proper visor You know...

Mikael

It is in Estonian so Danish or German are of no avail. Finnish is of some help. The thing about vambraces is in page 27. The contents of first paragraph are paraphrased in the text of the original post. Second paragraph tells that these were probably made with cuirboulli technique. Both had in four ...

Mikael

Yes and no. Upto 1970s archaelogists in Finland made their international publications in German language. Then again the Viking Age swords found from Finland seem to show up in more general works about vikings. More pics of Viking age and Crusading age swords from Finland could be found here: http:/...

Mikael

I would hazard a guess that reference would be to seaxes - scramasax in Finnisha arceological parlance. Most of the swords I remember seeing would be just like You say just as anyones - best ones imported from Germany. Some more info on pages of National board of antiquites - The education packets a...

Mikael

A vid of polish sabre technique, almost a bottle of wine and a swashbuckling movie constitute a risk to the lamp in the ceiling.
I still need to give more thought to the orientation of the blade in figure- eights.

Mikael

Vittakeinu - vitta refers to vitsas that is those twisted branches he uses for tying the thing - keinu - swing. mankelointi - well, ironing but without iron vittakytky - again that twisted braches thing used ropelike, to tie something together - so kytky here would be something like leash nuija , ye...

Mikael

Alas, how You must have suffered in those drafty halls and courts, coughing and crying because of the smoke from the fireplace.

( Where is the Green with envy emoticon?

)

Mikael

Cylidrical little cap, with a top that comes over the edges slightly. Seen in 15th century Italian paintings, easiest pic I found was under this link of Italian re-enacment supplier : http://www.medievaldesign.com/eng-prodotti.asp?form_chiave=22 ( They are there down the list of hats.) Most famous a...

Mikael

Stupid question perhaps, but why is the type of cap called alla capitanesca.

I know what they look like, but why are they called that?

Mikael

That looks nice.
A simple leather sheath would be icing on the cake.
If You have leather, equipment and time for pulling it off, that is.
(For some reason I find giving out a naked blade disturbing, superstition I guess)

Mikael

Concur with Alaric on the other pictures. Valaric is definitely throwing a wrap. However, I don't believe he is fighting Graf Hans (of West/Middle/Outlands), although the kit is very similar (Hans' is much nicer)... I wonder if that's Becks' son? For some reason, I think that is Sir Ivan (of Drache...

Mikael

However, the old antenna style fencing pretty much died here in Finland when C&T came along, and that I am ok with. That was not that period nor that exciting, wouldn't ban it but am pretty happy to see people embrace C&T instead. Did they skip heavy rapier altogether in your kingdom? No - but it w...

Mikael

There is one in Uccellos rout of of saint romano
http://www.friendsofart.net/en/art/paol ... ine-troops

Also it seems his John Hawkwood is sporting one.

Mikael

2001 paperback 1-891448-42-0

Morris is credited for translation of "the Ordene de Chevalerie" in the back.

Just a me too, I am afraid.

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