"... that speaks to who this guy is: that he fights primarily on foot, with two handed weapons, he's using two-handed fighting styles, only levels Strength, rushed to get the Zweihander, farmed Titanite..."
Just to add my voice to the multitude already saying: these collaborations with Dr. Capwell are so fucking great. I hope you'll keep doing them as often as your respective schedules allow. You guys have really complementary perspectives.
Clearly you guys don't know what you are talking about. When I go into battle, I wear a giant quiver of longswords on my back that I use as ammunition for my longbow. And I use a longbow so that I can fire 3 swords at a time, killing swaths of armored opponents with each draw.
Pah! Only 3?! Are you a little girl? I fire telephone pole sized swords in a massivebow the size of Camelot with string made out of tiny swords held up by swords!
Wow! You can really see with this video that the resolution with your new camera is much higher. The sound is still funny but the detail on the effigy is really well seen especially at the end.
Drawn swords in a church? that's a paddling! After these sets of videos i found myself in a church for my brothers wedding, id been in previously and not noticed, but they had a chancellery with an effigie in it of similar effect (man and wife) and another single man off to one side. if it hadnt been for your videos id probably never had gone for a look. It was at Miserden Church in Gloucestershire, i'd assume Dr Capwell had been there?
There is a replica of that English longsword (based on effigy) sold at Celtic Merchant and other sword outlets. It's a beautiful sword and I hope to own it someday. Also the English commonly used the longsword with one hand as can be seen in the Harleian and Ledall MS.
Another great little video. I have an unrelated question, have you watched the show Outlander? It's a great show, and in last week's show they had a small battle of the Jacobite's vs the British at Prestonpans, and I thought it was filmed really well. It wasn't too long, and it didn't show too much, but it could be something interesting to do a quick review of.
Awesome mate, by the way - you've mentioned some video games in previous videos (i.e Total war, Mount and Blade), any chances of doing some videos on them?
People are often surprised to find out that my longswords have blades that are somewhere between 35 and 37 inches. They see them and hold them and assume they must be really big. The reason they were referred to as long swords isn't that they were zomg longest thing evar. It's just...the typical length for a medieval single-handed sword, which was probably commonly referred to as just "sword" was 31 inches or so. So...a sword that is 5 or 6 inches longer is...a long sword.
That's why I keep freaking out when every humpty dumpty calls smallswords short. Compared to rapiers excessive blades, smallswords are short. But the average 18th C. small sword has a blade of 31", which is quite typical for single handed swords throughout the ages.
Just strengthens my point, that "normal" longswords (of that timeframe) arent the 120/125cm things mostly used today. A lovely espée de guerre. Looking forward to the sharp that i am having made atm. Just this kind of sword. But how does it favor the use on foot ? It is a perfect sword on horseback from my (very little) experience... It is a brilliant allrounder. Onehanded/Twohanded/Horseback. Talking about a length of 110-118cm maybe.
So as well as allowing a two handed grip, doesn't that bring the swords center of gravity back very close to the guard? Which would make the sword much handier.
You mentioned it as a joke but I would really love to see a video of the subject of wearing swards on the back. Was it don (obviously) wen/wear was it don and so on and why it isn't a good idea to do it with every sward that is a bit too long.
I get that but do you really need to draw it from the back and in most cases do you really need to do it as fast as possible I mean you have to agree that with some swards carrying it on the back using a simple strap makes a lot of sense and not that I'm defending Hollywood or anything like that but in some if not most cases of a person with a sward on the back you actually see them take it of before drawing it
Do have have examples of sword grips that have gilding on them, or just on other elements of the hilt? Was the golden handle just artistic license for the effigy?
solid gold must have been used on ritual swords for the priest/king at some point. jewels were definetley used. gold leaf wears off very quickly...gold thread wound round the hilt (as well as silver wire).
Fred Eagle indeed! I was just wondering if the sculptor took liberties in the yellowing of this handle, or if it is possible that it is represented something we have seen before in a surviving longsword
Knights and noblemen were not smaller than modern people, nor were commoners that much smaller during the middle ages. People schrinking was more of a 17th to 19th century thing, especially in cities.
Geralt is used to mockery. In the books it's noted that it's unusual that he carries the sword on his back, other people carry it on their belt. It seems to have to do with his trade of monster hunting, possibly to avoid making sound. He doesn't need to have the sword ready to unsheathe because he can't be surprized due to his heightened senses. In the books he also carries only one sword with him, the steel sword. The silver sword is on his horse. Alternately, the silver one on the back and the steel one on the side.
+Altrantis I think the way he handled his swords on the first witcher game is much more faithful to the book, but it also looked ridiculous.I may need to re read the fans translated book again..
A knight with a longsword on his back would be a Ninja Knight and totally awesome. He'd wear black and fling out medieval shruiken and deal death in an instant. Toby wears black and I suspect he has Ninja tendencies and quite possibly more.
Yes, that is an interesting theory. However, I suppose one can only throw one pommel when a Ninja Knight would need a bag full of pommels. And if he had a bagful of pommels, that would mean quite a lot of swords on the back without their pommels. This might pose a bit of a tactical issue?
Ninja knights bounce the pommel off the enemy and get it back. Don't you know anything about historical ninja knight combat? edit: Also they always wore at least two crossed swords on their back because the cool factor increases by the square of the number of swords on your back.
Well, a fish tail pommel wouldn't bounce.It would stick in real deep and would have to be gouged out with pincers, not exactly practical when one is under a little time pressure, though a Ninja's training would be very intensive? Yes, the coolness of multiple crossed swords would be exponential and create so much total awe it would blow away whole ranks in an instant and cause mayhem with the double shaaawing sounds as they were unsheathed with a dual wielded +2 dexterity bonus.
As far as I understand, it could today. Historically (as in the late middle ages) they were just called "swords" or "long swords" but connotation is murky. It is all very contextual... Also still something of a bone of contention in these learned circles.
'Bastard sword' was used in the middle ages in several languages. It was supposedly used for 'kind of in the middle-swords', and like any medieval term which spanned numerous centuries, languages and regions, it does not have a singular meaning.
I admit I don't know nearly as much about swords as Sir Matt of Easton does but I too would consider a sword with a blade length of an arming sword but with a hilt length of a longsword to be a hand-and-a-half (bastard) sword. To me a longsword is a weapon meant to be solely used with two-hands. A great sword (or true two-hander) is one of those massive swords used more like a polearm. (And yes I realize that there are a few moves that utilize using a longsword or even a great sword with one hand.)
Wouldn't wearing it over one shoulder, like how one wheres rifle, still be, pratical? you slides the sleath off and grab it to draw the sword out, rotate the sword as you are drawing it out, etc. It as obvious wearing two handed swords across your back wasn't done. Drawing something that long across you back for most people is an impossible with bending down. This is all pure practical speculation of course. Also, from historical speculation, wouldn't there have been an incentive for tomb scupltors to only depict one type of scabbard placment because position where is would be slung in the back via, the lower back one shoulder, etc, would made extremely to see and admire, because the effigy's body position? They to all be laying on there back, so anything cut and depicted would be effectively hiden from view.
This channel has a video on large two handed swords where he talks about how they were probably carried resting on the shoulder and cradled in the hand when marching, much like muskets. The problem with swords on the back is that there is so much historical evidence to the contrary. Almost no historical evidence that weapons were worn on the back. It's easier to just strap it to a pack mule or stow it in a cart until needed, much like shields. I do suppose it would be possible for some soldiers to do it, but we don't have proof and it doesn't make as much sense as just stowing it or wearing at your side..
Yes. Longsword, hand and a half sword and bastard sword are more or less interchangeable. They weren't clearly defined terms and the apparent meanings of each tended to vary by author and period.
+lancer D I thought a bastard sword was a sword that was between an arming sword and a longsword. I know the bastard sword was an English thing as well, but since they never outright said it, I'd thought I'd ask.
Specific typologies and terminology like that is purely modern concern. Actual contemporaries used a wild menagerie of terms for similar articles interchangeably with blase abandon; the (non)difference between Longsword, hand & a half, bastard, etc sword being one example.
+100thlurker It was either a Skallagrim or Lindybeige video (one of the ones on bastard swords) where they talked about the term existing back on some tournament roster that distinguished it from longswords. Anywho, I wasn't asking if it was a historical term.
and I suppose blade length was a function of the wearer's height . . . tall guys get longer blades to go with their longer reach . . . no fair! Today's EU rules would require a maximum allowed distance from shoulder to blade tip . .
I'm not sure why you couldn't wear a long sword over your back. People wear rifles over their back just fine. You'd probably lose a lot of sheaths, but I can't imagine a cheap sheath couldn't be a small multiple of the cost of an arrow.
Because you can't draw it from your back. A rifle on your back is also less than ideal, but you don't have to draw it from a scabbard, so getting it ready to fight is a hell of a lot easier. A sheathed blade on your back simply can't be drawn at all if it's anything much longer than dagger length.
ShivaX51 Sure you can. You take the scabbard off like you would a rifle and pull the sword and scabbard apart. That's why I compared the expense of a cheap sheath to the expense of arrows. Both are things that usually need to be replaced after a fight.
Because in this context, the longsword was a backup weapon to the primary weapon, which would be a lance or a poleaxe for an English man-at-arms. Its position is akin to the handgun today; it must be capable of being brought into bear instantly if the primary weapon failed or if there is no time to get to it. If your giant longsword was your primary weapon, which I think was what you were thinking of since you compare it to the rifle, then yes by all means wear it on your back. But you better also have a shorter weapon that you could draw rapidly as well. In fact thats what we see some Japanese warriors were doing.
Also, to be of good use protecting the blade, a scabbard needs to be at least somewhat decently made. And to make a wooden core and leather scabbard in those days, without powertools or machinery, meant a lot of work and effort put into it, and noticeable amounts of materials used, ike good leather, thread wax, oils well seasoned wood etc. etc.
LutzDerLurch You are dramatically underestimating the cost of an arrow, which defines what is disposable in warfare of the period. An archer will loose and lose dozens in a combat and there is nothing crude about their crafting. Just look at those found on the Mary Rose. Without a lathe a smooth dowel represents a fantastic amount of effort. You are also overestimating what a scabbard requires. Most of what you describe is finish. Plane two pieces of wood flat on one side and rout or burn out a space for the sword: less labor than shaping enough arrows to last an archer through a battle. The exterior shaping can be very crude. Line with raw wool because lanolin has anti-corrosive properties. Put pitch on the flat meeting surfaces. Bind the scabbard together probably with rawhide strips. Not pretty, but it's the same waterproofing that keeps ships afloat. Power tools have little impact on the comparison. The comparison is between two applications of wood working and if anything it is arrow manufacture which saves more through modern tools. The wood and rawhide would both be required in greater quantity to supply an archer for one battle, though the scabbard requires wood in larger pieces. The wool and pitch are not required by the archer, but the swordsman does not require large numbers of high quality goose quills and steel arrowheads which may not all be recoverable (the shafts and quills almost certainly won't).
+scholagladiatoria Hello sir. Me and my friends do a lot of battles in Lego, I was wondering what are the best formations for defence and attack? We play our game very similar to warhammer and i want to get the upper hand on my friends. I'm not sure if this helps but my army consists of: Full plate Knights Swordsmen Cavalry Archers Pikemen Spear men Peasants w/ sticks and shovels etc Barbarians w/ Axes and shields
that's the thing with effigies. they are life size. a strange ritual practice going back to the bronze age. Isn't that a bastard sword ? archeology is a free advertising campaign on behalf of the ancient nobility
rhemorigher épée bâtarde is French for bastard sword and functionally the same as a British long sword. There isn't a British design called a bastard sword.
It's a beautiful thing that in this internet age we can be presented with this kind of educational material.
It's really a fantastic thing, yes.
A couple of guys just casually stroll into a church with a couple of swords. Totally normal day in the parish.
holy ground
Well, probably they had permission from the parish priest...
Most people probably won't get that reference, but at least a few do!
There can only be one historian?
Wasn’t It Jesus who said: “When I return I will bring the Sword” ?
Hearing Dr. Capwell explain 'And you're not allowed to wear it on your back!' made my day.
Shad: "And I took that personally!"
"... that speaks to who this guy is: that he fights primarily on foot, with two handed weapons, he's using two-handed fighting styles, only levels Strength, rushed to get the Zweihander, farmed Titanite..."
lol
Praise the Sun!!
Just to add my voice to the multitude already saying: these collaborations with Dr. Capwell are so fucking great. I hope you'll keep doing them as often as your respective schedules allow. You guys have really complementary perspectives.
Capwell should create a TH-cam channel. He would have 100k subscribers within a year.
I like him as an addition to Matt's channel. Toby just isn't as entertaining to me, although certainly he is informative.
I love these! Make many more!
Clearly you guys don't know what you are talking about. When I go into battle, I wear a giant quiver of longswords on my back that I use as ammunition for my longbow. And I use a longbow so that I can fire 3 swords at a time, killing swaths of armored opponents with each draw.
I prefer slinging pommels.
what about carrying spandaus that fire pommels with little katanas holding swords on their backs?
Nyet. Pommels all day everyday. From a sling.
Pah! Only 3?! Are you a little girl? I fire telephone pole sized swords in a massivebow the size of Camelot with string made out of tiny swords held up by swords!
Wow! You can really see with this video that the resolution with your new camera is much higher. The sound is still funny but the detail on the effigy is really well seen especially at the end.
I very much enjoyed these vids wish you could do more. I worked at the Wallace before Dr Capwell was established there.
Drawn swords in a church? that's a paddling!
After these sets of videos i found myself in a church for my brothers wedding, id been in previously and not noticed, but they had a chancellery with an effigie in it of similar effect (man and wife) and another single man off to one side. if it hadnt been for your videos id probably never had gone for a look. It was at Miserden Church in Gloucestershire, i'd assume Dr Capwell had been there?
I was surprised by the fishtail pommel - I was under the impression that it wasn't a common feature on English longswords.
It was very common on English swords actually - especially from about 1440-1480.
I find that one particularly tasteful. It would be a good pick for Albion to do one of their classy swords from.
It´s not that dissimilar from the Albion Castellan. Really like that one, propably going to get myself one :)
*Pommel joke*
There is a replica of that English longsword (based on effigy) sold at Celtic Merchant and other sword outlets. It's a beautiful sword and I hope to own it someday. Also the English commonly used the longsword with one hand as can be seen in the Harleian and Ledall MS.
He unscrewed his quillon.
Another great little video. I have an unrelated question, have you watched the show Outlander? It's a great show, and in last week's show they had a small battle of the Jacobite's vs the British at Prestonpans, and I thought it was filmed really well. It wasn't too long, and it didn't show too much, but it could be something interesting to do a quick review of.
What is more common? Swords held in the hands of the effigy, or at the side?
Worn at the side is normal.
The vast majority either have their hands in a praying position, or touching their wife's hand when they have an effigy together sometimes.
Awesome mate, by the way - you've mentioned some video games in previous videos (i.e Total war, Mount and Blade), any chances of doing some videos on them?
People are often surprised to find out that my longswords have blades that are somewhere between 35 and 37 inches. They see them and hold them and assume they must be really big. The reason they were referred to as long swords isn't that they were zomg longest thing evar. It's just...the typical length for a medieval single-handed sword, which was probably commonly referred to as just "sword" was 31 inches or so. So...a sword that is 5 or 6 inches longer is...a long sword.
That's why I keep freaking out when every humpty dumpty calls smallswords short.
Compared to rapiers excessive blades, smallswords are short.
But the average 18th C. small sword has a blade of 31", which is quite typical for single handed swords throughout the ages.
Could you please make a video on the A474 sword and talk about the thickness of the blade?
Just strengthens my point, that "normal" longswords (of that timeframe) arent the 120/125cm things mostly used today.
A lovely espée de guerre. Looking forward to the sharp that i am having made atm. Just this kind of sword.
But how does it favor the use on foot ?
It is a perfect sword on horseback from my (very little) experience...
It is a brilliant allrounder. Onehanded/Twohanded/Horseback.
Talking about a length of 110-118cm maybe.
So as well as allowing a two handed grip, doesn't that bring the swords center of gravity back very close to the guard?
Which would make the sword much handier.
+scholagladiatoria please make a video showing saber vs bayoneted musket, PLEASE
But if I wear it on my back I will look cool... As long as I don't need to draw it.
You might look cool to modern computer gamers, but to a 15th century knight you'd look like an idiot :-D
+scholagladiatoria but... But... Braveheart!?!
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They might laugh at you, but they can never take away your FREEDOM! to wear it on your back.
Butt what about a 15th century German ninja with a Kriegsmesser on his back.
+MrFrowijn good point. Those German ninjas were dastardly.
Dr. Toboggan is looking fresh in this video. Very 'Man in Black' - will he drop a knowledge bomb or a bitchin' rendition of "Folsom Prison Blues"?
Thank you
Would a two handed sword be faster & more powerful in its manoeuvres than a one handed sword due to the push & pull motion?
You mentioned it as a joke but I would really love to see a video of the subject of wearing swards on the back.
Was it don (obviously) wen/wear was it don and so on and why it isn't a good idea to do it with every sward that is a bit too long.
It wasn't done because you can't draw anything from your back except maybe a knife.
I get that but do you really need to draw it from the back and in most cases do you really need to do it as fast as possible
I mean you have to agree that with some swards carrying it on the back using a simple strap makes a lot of sense
and not that I'm defending Hollywood or anything like that but in some if not most cases of a person with a sward on the back you actually see them take it of before drawing it
As an American, I was NOT expecting an American accent.
Do have have examples of sword grips that have gilding on them, or just on other elements of the hilt? Was the golden handle just artistic license for the effigy?
solid gold must have been used on ritual swords for the priest/king at some point. jewels were definetley used. gold leaf wears off very quickly...gold thread wound round the hilt (as well as silver wire).
Fred Eagle indeed! I was just wondering if the sculptor took liberties in the yellowing of this handle, or if it is possible that it is represented something we have seen before in a surviving longsword
+Andy J The sculptor probably meant to represent brass, which was used for hilt components, and has a similar color.
How tall were the men wielding them? How long would they be if thy were scaled up for a modern man who is 6 foot to 6 foot 4 in tall?
Knights and noblemen were not smaller than modern people, nor were commoners that much smaller during the middle ages. People schrinking was more of a 17th to 19th century thing, especially in cities.
Please make a live
Link'll be crushed to hear that.
Also, I do hope Geralt of Rivia won't have his head mounted on Roach.
Geralt is used to mockery. In the books it's noted that it's unusual that he carries the sword on his back, other people carry it on their belt. It seems to have to do with his trade of monster hunting, possibly to avoid making sound. He doesn't need to have the sword ready to unsheathe because he can't be surprized due to his heightened senses. In the books he also carries only one sword with him, the steel sword. The silver sword is on his horse. Alternately, the silver one on the back and the steel one on the side.
+Altrantis I think the way he handled his swords on the first witcher game is much more faithful to the book, but it also looked ridiculous.I may need to re read the fans translated book again..
why is the grip so huge? is that artistic licence since it's stone?
can´t you carry a longsword at a angel to awoid it draging on the ground ?
yes, but not too much of an angle because youll bang your sword on a lot of the things you walk across
is that the famous "knight in shinning white armor"?
A knight with a longsword on his back would be a Ninja Knight and totally awesome. He'd wear black and fling out medieval shruiken and deal death in an instant. Toby wears black and I suspect he has Ninja tendencies and quite possibly more.
medieval shruiken, AKA pommels
Yes, that is an interesting theory. However, I suppose one can only throw one pommel when a Ninja Knight would need a bag full of pommels. And if he had a bagful of pommels, that would mean quite a lot of swords on the back without their pommels. This might pose a bit of a tactical issue?
Ninja knights bounce the pommel off the enemy and get it back. Don't you know anything about historical ninja knight combat?
edit: Also they always wore at least two crossed swords on their back because the cool factor increases by the square of the number of swords on your back.
Well, a fish tail pommel wouldn't bounce.It would stick in real deep and would have to be gouged out with pincers, not exactly practical when one is under a little time pressure, though a Ninja's training would be very intensive? Yes, the coolness of multiple crossed swords would be exponential and create so much total awe it would blow away whole ranks in an instant and cause mayhem with the double shaaawing sounds as they were unsheathed with a dual wielded +2 dexterity bonus.
did you filmed all effigies video in one go
Wouldn't such a sword be called a "Bastard Sword" or "Hand and a half Sword"?
As far as I understand, it could today. Historically (as in the late middle ages) they were just called "swords" or "long swords" but connotation is murky. It is all very contextual... Also still something of a bone of contention in these learned circles.
Bastard sword, hand and a half sword and longsword are the same thing.
'Bastard sword' was used in the middle ages in several languages. It was supposedly used for 'kind of in the middle-swords', and like any medieval term which spanned numerous centuries, languages and regions, it does not have a singular meaning.
+Nuserame
Thanks!
I admit I don't know nearly as much about swords as Sir Matt of Easton does but I too would consider a sword with a blade length of an arming sword but with a hilt length of a longsword to be a hand-and-a-half (bastard) sword. To me a longsword is a weapon meant to be solely used with two-hands. A great sword (or true two-hander) is one of those massive swords used more like a polearm. (And yes I realize that there are a few moves that utilize using a longsword or even a great sword with one hand.)
Tred lightly you're near a heroes tomb :)
Wouldn't wearing it over one shoulder, like how one wheres rifle, still be, pratical? you slides the sleath off and grab it to draw the sword out, rotate the sword as you are drawing it out, etc. It as obvious wearing two handed swords across your back wasn't done. Drawing something that long across you back for most people is an impossible with bending down. This is all pure practical speculation of course. Also, from historical speculation, wouldn't there have been an incentive for tomb scupltors to only depict one type of scabbard placment because position where is would be slung in the back via, the lower back one shoulder, etc, would made extremely to see and admire, because the effigy's body position? They to all be laying on there back, so anything cut and depicted would be effectively hiden from view.
This channel has a video on large two handed swords where he talks about how they were probably carried resting on the shoulder and cradled in the hand when marching, much like muskets. The problem with swords on the back is that there is so much historical evidence to the contrary. Almost no historical evidence that weapons were worn on the back. It's easier to just strap it to a pack mule or stow it in a cart until needed, much like shields. I do suppose it would be possible for some soldiers to do it, but we don't have proof and it doesn't make as much sense as just stowing it or wearing at your side..
Great points!
Experts talking :D
TheElderScrollsKing I have a feeling you and I are gonna become very close
Would this be a bastard sword then?
Yes. Longsword, hand and a half sword and bastard sword are more or less interchangeable. They weren't clearly defined terms and the apparent meanings of each tended to vary by author and period.
+lancer D I thought a bastard sword was a sword that was between an arming sword and a longsword. I know the bastard sword was an English thing as well, but since they never outright said it, I'd thought I'd ask.
Specific typologies and terminology like that is purely modern concern. Actual contemporaries used a wild menagerie of terms for similar articles interchangeably with blase abandon; the (non)difference between Longsword, hand & a half, bastard, etc sword being one example.
In this case a bastard OF bastards! Interesting to see such variety and how made-to-purpose swords were (at least at the upper end)
+100thlurker It was either a Skallagrim or Lindybeige video (one of the ones on bastard swords) where they talked about the term existing back on some tournament roster that distinguished it from longswords. Anywho, I wasn't asking if it was a historical term.
and I suppose blade length was a function of the wearer's height . . . tall guys get longer blades to go with their longer reach . . . no fair!
Today's EU rules would require a maximum allowed distance from shoulder to blade tip . .
I'm not sure why you couldn't wear a long sword over your back. People wear rifles over their back just fine. You'd probably lose a lot of sheaths, but I can't imagine a cheap sheath couldn't be a small multiple of the cost of an arrow.
Because you can't draw it from your back. A rifle on your back is also less than ideal, but you don't have to draw it from a scabbard, so getting it ready to fight is a hell of a lot easier. A sheathed blade on your back simply can't be drawn at all if it's anything much longer than dagger length.
ShivaX51 Sure you can. You take the scabbard off like you would a rifle and pull the sword and scabbard apart. That's why I compared the expense of a cheap sheath to the expense of arrows. Both are things that usually need to be replaced after a fight.
Because in this context, the longsword was a backup weapon to the primary weapon, which would be a lance or a poleaxe for an English man-at-arms. Its position is akin to the handgun today; it must be capable of being brought into bear instantly if the primary weapon failed or if there is no time to get to it. If your giant longsword was your primary weapon, which I think was what you were thinking of since you compare it to the rifle, then yes by all means wear it on your back. But you better also have a shorter weapon that you could draw rapidly as well. In fact thats what we see some Japanese warriors were doing.
Also, to be of good use protecting the blade, a scabbard needs to be at least somewhat decently made.
And to make a wooden core and leather scabbard in those days, without powertools or machinery, meant a lot of work and effort put into it, and noticeable amounts of materials used, ike good leather, thread wax, oils well seasoned wood etc. etc.
LutzDerLurch You are dramatically underestimating the cost of an arrow, which defines what is disposable in warfare of the period. An archer will loose and lose dozens in a combat and there is nothing crude about their crafting. Just look at those found on the Mary Rose. Without a lathe a smooth dowel represents a fantastic amount of effort. You are also overestimating what a scabbard requires.
Most of what you describe is finish. Plane two pieces of wood flat on one side and rout or burn out a space for the sword: less labor than shaping enough arrows to last an archer through a battle. The exterior shaping can be very crude. Line with raw wool because lanolin has anti-corrosive properties. Put pitch on the flat meeting surfaces. Bind the scabbard together probably with rawhide strips. Not pretty, but it's the same waterproofing that keeps ships afloat.
Power tools have little impact on the comparison. The comparison is between two applications of wood working and if anything it is arrow manufacture which saves more through modern tools. The wood and rawhide would both be required in greater quantity to supply an archer for one battle, though the scabbard requires wood in larger pieces. The wool and pitch are not required by the archer, but the swordsman does not require large numbers of high quality goose quills and steel arrowheads which may not all be recoverable (the shafts and quills almost certainly won't).
you look a bit like the evil doctor from Miike snow's "Genghis Khan" xD
just saying because it popped up in suggested videos for some reason
Psh, what does this Copewell bloke know? "not allowed to wear it on your back". Next he'll be saying I cant wear blue facepaint either.....
:P
+scholagladiatoria Hello sir. Me and my friends do a lot of battles in Lego, I was wondering what are the best formations for defence and attack? We play our game very similar to warhammer and i want to get the upper hand on my friends. I'm not sure if this helps but my army consists of:
Full plate Knights
Swordsmen
Cavalry
Archers
Pikemen
Spear men
Peasants w/ sticks and shovels etc
Barbarians w/ Axes and shields
that's the thing with effigies. they are life size. a strange ritual practice going back to the bronze age. Isn't that a bastard sword ? archeology is a free advertising campaign on behalf of the ancient nobility
i don't believe that the term 'bastard sword' exists outside of computer games and pen and paper RPGs.
rhemorigher épée bâtarde is French for bastard sword and functionally the same as a British long sword. There isn't a British design called a bastard sword.
orlock20 I know this, in fact, I said this.
I'd like to take that Albion to every shit stain who carved their initials into that beautiful work of art.
most of them probably dead already, you gonna use it as a spade?
Aren't you two going to say anything about the lady?
please review the Battle for Winterfell. Hilariously stupid.