Dark Age Inspired Fantasy Armor
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- **UPDATE** This is an old video and I've made a lot of mistakes in terms of accuracy. Please don't take it too seriously. Some may appreciate it for what it is, a fantasy kit inspired from different parts of the dark ages. Thanks for reading!
As promised here are some links on where to find some of my gear or something similar.
Winingas- www.etsy.com/shop/MinasMusing...
Bazubands- www.wulflund.com/armour/leath...
Gambeson- www.etsy.com/listing/21187557...
Lamellar- kultofathena.com/product.asp?i...
Maille shirt/ mitts- allbeststuff.com/Chain-Mail-Ar...
Hood- www.etsy.com/listing/58682702...
Shoes- www.vikingleathercrafts.com/pe...
the music used in this video was an acoustic cover of the song "Don't you cry," by Kamelot. The outro theme was "Take the Day!" by Turisas. - บันเทิง
th-cam.com/video/2aysSCAcUiI/w-d-xo.html Finally! Here's the new viking armor video now with better representation of historical accuracy! Check it out.
Their version of "gambeson" was probably just the thick clothes they would need for the weather anyway, & eventually someone probably just put 2 & 2 together & we got the medieval gambeson.
Vikings also wore gambesons
There's a quite a lot of difference between gambesons and warm clothing.
Weren't gambesons first used by the eastern romans before they spread to the west?
You could probably make one out of a cheap $10.00 packing blanket from Harbor Freight.
vikings didnt use gambesons a lot, they would wear several layers of clothing under the maille, or just wear normal clothes
I give you what the Vikings *should* be wearing in For Honor.
Yes. I hate for honor because of this reason
For honor, is a wrong... or Hollywood(ish) depiction of the Vikings.
@@PpAirO5 yes,but at least they look badass.
@@user-nx1rn3wm9z.. I don't think so.. I would prefer a more historical depiction.
@@PpAirO5 yep
Now you are well equipped for when the saxons attack you in the streets.
You mean the other way around
I hate when that happens. Just the other day I was on my way to 7/11 when I was set upon by 5 saxon knights. Such a pain in the ass
@@Nantosuelta Thegns or Heathgaurd Knights are norman
Better not let them join the Angles and Jutes or else you're really in trouble.
I jumped two Vikings before breakfast
Looks like Byzanto-Persian armoury
Might have been going for the Varangian Guard look.
Wisp Man I agree!
Some of the Vendel-period helmets found in Sweden look a lot like the helmets used by the Sassanids. Some have sugested trading-links.
he did say late period but it's defo varangian which is what most Viking pics are dressed as
I’m super impressed with the level of determination you had to make this kit. It all looks like a professional. This is just great man
Thanks for actually mentioning that gambesons for vikings are disputed. Surely they must've had some kind of padding, but that could also have been thick tunics. Or multiple thick tunics worn together. Your gambeson actually looks pretty good I think. I don't know why, but it just doesn't have such a high medieval look like many others I've seen.
ATTENTION!! I will be working on an updated Viking kit video soon. I've tweaked some components and set aside the lamellar for a Scandinavian kit that I will cover it detail. This kit is certainly not up to snuff for historical accuracy.. But I still like it regardless and love using it in eastern fighting. Stay tuned!
A very good presentation sir. I commend you on your kit. To hell with the minor inaccuracies ! It's better to afford protection than having a broken bone !
Pax.🇬🇧
Can't wait for the update this kit is so cool
dang you know while it's not 100% historically accurate it still looks mega badass. You did a great job balancing the popular period 'look' of the viking age with extra protection and just a enough imaginitive license to make something truly memorable. Great work!
Thank you very much! I appreciate it. I've found that this is by far my most divisive kit. Either people think it's unique and looks awesome and they love it. Or they absolutely hate it haha. I really like it for a more fantasy dark age kit, I'm also partial because I constructed a large portion of the parts. But I can definitely understand the flaws lol hence I don't use this kit for reenactment per say.
Links for some of the main components are in the description. So I don't wanna see a bunch of comments asking where I got this armor lol
Where did you get this armor
Hilarious 😜
DUDE! YOU LOOK SCARY IN THIS VIDEO xD nice armor
Lol thanks XD
looks sick cant believe you made that helmet your self love the veiled styled helmets
Given they surely had the means to make gambesons, they'd be made of something that isn't prone to surviving, and you really need something under mail for it to really be effective, I'd be in favor of the idea that they most likely did have them. Interesting kit in any case!
yeah i am almost 100% sure they had somethign simillar to a gambeson, like a thick, multilayered woolen tunic or such, cus as you say, a maille kinda needs it for full effectiveness. :)
Agreed, it would have made sense for at least a few of them to have worn a gambson or something similar. I'm about as sure as you can be without a surviving example that it was a thing.
There's no surviving example of gambesons, everyone's tired of hearing and reading that, but they did had the concept of padded armor, some reenactors even say that it is possible the vikings wore thick woolen tunics one over another, and some reenactors even speculate that they could have sewn tunics together to make one sturdy piece of padding, so i think that if there was any kind of gambeson, it would have a simple tunic pattern, like the Penguin's gambeson, so i guess it's somehow safe to say that his gambeson (despite the fact that it is black) is one of the most accurate things we can get to what they had at the viking age
+Viktor Silva The fact, that the gambeson is black, doesn't make it inaccurate at all. Yes, black wasn't as common, as we see in the movies, but it still was an existing and used color.
Dude, i've always heard throught reenactors with more experience that there was no black in viking cuture, i tried to read about it but even if i google "black color in viking reenactment/age" i only find texts talking about black people in viking cuture, but never about the color, i spoke to some reenactors and they said "well, if you really want, try black wool, because of course existed black sheep in the Vik. Age", do you have any source that talks about black color in the viking era ?
That is such a great kit. I would love to see a video on how you modified that Lang seax from a machete.
Green with envy, great work mate!!
Hey thank you! :D
That kit is awesome. You clearly have a real sence of what looks good together... good job man!
This is something we all secretly want but can't be bothered to make god damn it
I love the commitment to the colour scheme.
This is really cool, thanks for not taking it down due to it not being completely historically accurate. I still think it's just cool to get to see, and I love the artistic value it holds. Also, the fact that you personally made a lot of the gear is impressive, it looks great.
This looks pretty epic man! I've only got a soft kit for viking age at the moment, but you certainly put together a solid look. Badass
That gambeson looks good Sam. It was cool to see the whole kit together.
Haha, thanks man. You do excellent work. 😁 You should make a page for your projects so I can link the gambeson to it! Unless you aren't looking to make anymore gambis for order haha
I've actually been pretty busy with my Senior Project. I've been building a BB-8 droid from Star Wars.
Your self made helmet and armor are fantastic I love how they look
This kit is soooo cool 😍
I want too buy my own Viking outfit 💙
Like yourself I'm viking mad and I'm lucky enough to live a short drive from Lindisfarne in Northumbria where the first viking raid in Britain took place it's an amazing place where time has stood still you would love it.
Looking good my dude!
Awesome mate, tottaly respect a guy who makes as much as he can. Good for you👍
When you make your armor 2/2/0 so you can take a Bloodlust.
Spot on lol
@@paynesyler6428 Depends on your weapon, if you go with a single strong two handed weapon you can reasonably get away with 2/2/2 or possibly more, as weapons are expensive and only bringing one really helps reduce the cost.
Actually looks really protective. I couldn’t image an arrow piercing through all those layers of armour.
From my studies I've learned that the most important part of the belt wasn't to hold up anything or to hold weapons an items. But to hold the weight of the hauberk off the shoulders and onto the hips. similar to hiking backpacks today
Awesome kit, great job, now some leg protection and a sword
thank you so much, this helped me a TON with my kit
Freaking awesome job :) I love the kamelot in the background haha.
Gorgeous gambeson, and great kit..! Now I'm jealous.
Thank you! :)
Great video. You did a great job with this kit.
I like the name of the channel and that one of the reasons i subscribed .
Wish the Vikings in ForHonor was wearing something like this.
I'm a little late, but damn that looks great. Awesome job. Especially on the helmet, it looks insanely frightening, in a “good“ way. Sure as hell would be scared to fight someone looking like that. Just imagine being a monk in a remote chapel or somewhere and you see guys dressed like this dismount from their longboats. Again, awesome job :D
Very good! You should be proud of your handiwork!
Very impressive. Fair play to you sir.
All kitted out for another day of riding the R train around Brooklyn…
Must be a hell of a ride
Ah Etsy, the tailor of choice for the vikings. Esteemed by odin
Vegan hipster Baldr approves...
great job! awesome stuff!
Beautiful kit.
Great work on that armor!
Great job man!! They only thing I can see that you missed was the raised crown on the top of the helmet to ward off sword blows. But that Viking knife was REALLY outstanding!!
I love these kinds of helmets
While that armor may not be accurate enough to represent the Vikings, It makes for a solid Mongol worrier kit (Minus the helmet and shield) But looks pretty cool regardless.
I actually have gone in that direction with this kit. Kind of a Rus eastern kit. I bought a pointed helm with a horsetail on it visible in my last viking video at the swedish festival. Still not the most period with the D plate lamellar. I built the lamellar and helmet though. So while it's not period it still has a permanent place in my collection.
Great job man. I just started building my own kit =)
I think I know what my summer project is now
Did you cut out all the platelets for the lamellar or did you buy them (and if so, were they specifically for armor or where they mending braces or the such)?
The helmet reminds me of the Whiterun guards in Skyrim.
excellent kit!
Really like this color scheme.
He made a real effort bless his cotton socks. In all the viking novels i read the guys went into battle with just spear and shield with a berni and helm if they were professional.
Very cool armor
The lamellar torso armour bears some visual similarities to samurai armour
Have to ask your helmet didn't they get rib of the glasses look before the late Viking age. Am only asking because am thinking of buying one of the bar on the nose helmets.with a rounded top. But am trying to figure if it's fine for mid to late Dublin
Good work that's awesome.
Really nice video!
Is the weight of your armour historically accurate?
If yes, is it possible to give the weights of each 'piece'?
Historical reality: Only the Viking elite could afford armour like this
I really want a pair of those forearm and elbow guards, they look sick
I'll take the plate armor
Dedicated Spartan I’ll take the bishop mantle and helmet tbh
Great job friend!!
can you recommend a historical accurate round shield from the viking age? I want to buy one
I love throwing my Francisca axe!
You look so badass!! It looks awesome 😯.
Great project, you remind me of myself at your age. I look forward to the new kit. One question though, if you are wearing a vendel helmet (which looks great), why do you call it a late viking kit?
very badass
Nice kit!
Would that helmet serve in a duel? Like holmganghamburg, I want to get into that
Every part of the armor kit has its use, and still with all that you were wearing, it didn't slow your movement.
I didn't know that vikings had that kind of armor kit.
A bunch of these components aren't quite right and are more for sport armored combat rather than perfect historical accuracy. I will do an update of this video wearing an actually historical Viking setup eventually.
Apart from the absence of leg protection, I dig this armour.
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Me: I used to be an adventurer like you, until i took an arrow to the knee.
More like him: I used to be an adventurer like you too until I took a viking.
Very cool
Did you make the mail on the helm? Also, did you use any padding where your nose is?
Very nice
Excellent work on the armor, if i may suggest, you may want to try one of the cold steel roman gladius swords. They are well made I own one of them and it is great. Also a Cold Steel gladius was used on the Forged in Fire show for target practice against other hand made swords and it stood up after a beating by their swords and was not harmed.
lovely
if you have the skills to make that helmet i think you can probably put together a much better sword than the current one. cool kit, looks badass
Excelente video gracias
I had heard that some warriors of the time period put strips of iron to act as shin guards under their boots. is that something you tested, and if so is it a very effective way or are the socks simply enough protection?
Splints work well. And those are leg wraps not socks lol
You were talking about sport combat however Im concerned about the seeming lack of leg protection. Do you have some metal armour/padding underneath your pants?
Yep, hidden knees and heavy padding on the legs underneath.
Nice job.
u did a gr8 job :)
Muito boa instrução,excelente canal
The gambison and helmet (full chainmail) you have was mostly used by the slavic people
I like this setup a lot but the links are expired or unavailable, does anyone know a way to get this equipment?
Nice armor! May I recommend a lapel mic my liege.
Well done
how is breathability with a helmet that has a closed aventail?
The armor looks good enough for a rider of Rohan.
Hello! Wonderfull kitt! How many lamellar pieces did it take to make the harnes? Im trying to build my self a viking kitt and strugling to try to figgure out how many i need to make/by :)
About 600 though I will say lamellar is not very accurate for vikingss. If you wanna go viking maille and a gambeson are good body armor. Lamellar is good for Rus tho!
If you made the helmet, did you document the process? Links anything? It would be much appreciated! I checked the description and i din't see it there. Or maybe someone could direct me to a video of a forge that made one such as this? Thanks alot!
Check my videos, I posted a video with pictures i took during production.
Might be a little late, but what type of chainmail are you using?
Flat pin riveted.
I have a nice, fairly long maille hauberk, flat, riveted rings, goes to my elbows and almost all the way down to my knees.
Rings are fairly small -> more rings/weight.
+ im a big guy at 1,94cm and 105kg.
The maille alone weighs 11kg, its heavy but when on it doesnt restrict movement at all, im just a bit slower in running speed and get tired faster.
I love your 9th to 11th century viking kit bud. but the helmet is 7th century but other than that really awesome kit man. Just subscribe
Maybe it was a hand me down from an ancestor (the helm)
@@thewisp7447 I tryed that's as excuse during a reenactment of the great army attacks and the authenticy officer wasn't having any of it he said the spectical helm we were out by that time they were already late by the 7th century when the helmet was found
The kite shield is 11th century, just so you know.
@@WarDogMadnessThe only (mostly) complete viking age helmet from Scandinavia that has survived is the gjermundbu helmet which is a spectacle helmet and it dates to around 970. There are a few from the vendel period aswell but they to are mostly spectacle helms, given the time gap of around 200 years it is safe to assume that the spectacle design remained in use even if only by the few norsemen that had helmets.
@@Konradpagano Or late tenth century,illustrated first in the late 900`s in the gospels of Otto III and then later in the famous bayeux tapestry,usually on horseback,by Norman cavalry. No surviving example exists of the late viking era or has been discovered...yet….
Does your lamelar reaches to the natural waist? Or to the hips
Right above the hips. So i can still move easily
What about protection for legs ?
I like so much the helmet
Nice kit, but got me interested. Is anykind of lamellar actually accurate for a norse culture of the time? I myself assosiate it strongly with asian cultures, tho obviously other people also used it. I've never heard about norse culture using lamellar, atleast not heard about any evidence. Anyone can clear me on this? Your kit is awesome anycase, nice work.
E: Oh sorry, I didn't read the description. I'll still leave this here since I'd like to hear about it if someone can point me to a source on a chance.
Ya know I cant remember the name of the source off the top of my head but some time ago I did see a documentary on the trade routes the norse made. According to the historians that put it together the norsemen were exchaging goods with traders from as far away as the middle east, so they may have at least known of llamalar style armor at the very least. I'll poke around and see if I can find that video.
The kit is from the later years of the Viking Age. By then, the Norse (specially the Rus) would've known of lamellar through their interactions with eastern peoples, particularly the Eastern Romans (the kit actually looks more Varangian than Norse, which he mentioned near the end). Take in mind that other Germanic groups (such as the Longobards) made prevalent use of lamellar during the Migration Period, as it's easy to repair and maintain.
There was a finding in Sweden if i recall correctly
Are you wearing an undershirt under the tunic?
Uh no
Hey I have been making a Viking age kit over the past year as well. Do you have a reenactment group you are apart of?
Yep, Skjalborg in Missouri as well as my own group Knights of the North. Looking for a group to join?
Yes I am! Do you have Skjalborg contact info?
very nice. was wondering how many weapons u got under that 😅👌