Shooting the Viking inspired Longbow

I have had a few comments on my video for the build of this bow and decided to do a follow up and answer a few questions about the design and speed of the bow. First off, there are no historical remnants that would prove this is a Viking bow but I took my design inspiration from the Vikings.
Other questions about the build and length are in the video. Really enjoyed shooting this and will be making another string for it soon.
Thank you for your support!

[@stevedriscoll2539]

Keep at it and stay the course. Try not to waste your life away like so many of us on worthless pursuits or wasting it away on all the internet garbage. You are making some very nice bows! I like that Viking bow a lot...I might be able to get some decent Ash. I can't really talk too much about where or when, but if I can get a good stave, I might try to make a similar bow but shorted...thanks for the fun video

[@BowtellBows]

Thank you Steve for your kind words! I wish you the best as well if you get the chance to make a bow from Ash. It is a wonderful wood and this bow was lots of fun to make. Got lots of time focused on my young family but I still squeeze bow making in when I can.

[@WolfStar08]

Once again the more I see the bow the better it gets. And with the last point you made at the end of the video with using it as a spear, we do have historical evidence of a bow from Nydam I believe, from the Viking age. It had a simple metal spike tip on one end of the longbow that was used as a simple spear when unstrung for extra versatility to the bow when used as a weapons or if using it as a walking stick when unstrung in the woods and needing to keep dangerous animals at a distance. So with an antler knock on the end I could easily see it being used in the same way

[@BowtellBows]

That was my thought as well. Though it is hard to prove that it was 100% viking, I would say that it is well within the area of possibilities. This is the problem with the history of bows in general. Everyone used them but so few have survived for us to study them.

[@HistoricalWeapons]

Surving viking bows have self non functional deflex tips that are outside of nock to nock zone. Only in bayeux tapestry there are suggestions of recuve tips. Artwork of the technique is chest draw

[@BowtellBows]

I have seen those photos but didn’t understand why they were built the way they were. After posting this video, I have learned that Vikings used to use their bows as walking sticks or ski poles so they needed an area after the working bow limbs to do that. I could see this being used by a Viking but not a documentable bow build for sure. Thanks for the comment!