again a flaw in the SCA rules system because this leads us to believe that crushing a shield with one of these weapons would put it through the shield and still damage the person hiding behind it. Don't take that the wrong way, I love fighting in the SCA and think it's a great sport.... I just can'...

And 2 quotes from description of battle in Bouvines (1214): In this battle the King's enemies made use of a type of weapon which had never been seen before. They had long and slender knives with three sharp edges from the point to the guard, and they were using these in the battle as swords and glai...

It has a name Falxart or Faussart . It was firstly used by Dacians: "The nasty "halberd" specified for Dacians is the Falx, probably best identified with their Thracian ancestor’s Rhomphaia." Rome’s Enemies 1 Germanics and Dacians, Osprey Men-At- Arms Series #129, London, 1982. The for...

Here you have some valsgarde and vendel helms (also ultuna). Unfortunetly in russian :]
http://tgorod.ru/index.php?topgroupid=2 ... tentid=249

Here you go

Not only Gjermundbu. There is one find from Switzerland (X c.) with the same round shape and sandwich construction too. Also without a nasal.

Gjermundbu is not a nasal helmet.

But I was using it on IX-X xentury battles

Thanks for that pics Egfroth. Now I have historical verification of my first made helmet (spangenhalm with nasal, like that helmet on the second picture).

I don't know what is the title of this book... I've found this pics on some web page.
I think that all of those pics are from the same books and the text on first photo is in swedish or norwagian.

Oh... I've forgotten about my archives on harddrive.
I don't know if pics that I have are from book you've mantioned, so if you want them too, I can mail it (too big to attach here).
There is quite big picture of frontside.

Here: http://www.missouri.edu/~rls555/SCA/res ... arde.htm#5
And here (text in Polish): http://www.birkamarket.com/historia/hist_valsgarde.html

I have really good pics of Valsgarde6 reconstruction. (over 4mb) So if you want I can mail it.