i know, i just posted the image. it's what google came with when i searched for KilijMedicus Matt wrote:The first one is a La Tene style Iron Age sword, so that's 2nd-1st century BC.
The second one is a spanish falcata so again that's Iron Age.
The fourth one is a Bronze Age sword, about 1000BC?
So, whilst they certainly fit the description "Not common on a 15th century battlefield" I think that using 2500-1700 year old antiques might be pushing the boundaries a little too far?
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All so true.Marcus Woodhouse wrote:The bardische is one of those weapons that is more popular among re-enactors then density should allow. My own research points to it being reasonably common (in illustartions-not finds) throughout Europe in the middle of the 14th century and then it reappears almost solely in Northern and eartern europe at the end of the 15th century, however its second appearence seems to show it more as a low status weapon (often dipicted by men carrying spears as well).
In my defence, I'd never seen one before I bought it, that's how uncommon they were.
If my undeserved reputation with the weapon has been even partly responsible for it's spread, I appologise.
There still aren't that many out there.
I recall (and this was nearly ten years ago, so I couldn't tell you where, or how) that I provinanced a bardiche to England in the 14thC. That evidence might, or might not, reach my higher standard of proof now.
Certainly they were more common in Eastern Europe early in the 15thC, and those were mostly also "commoners" weapons.
Finds, and I think the two in a case above show one of each, range from unbalanced, rustic axes to better made, balanced weapons.
When I disucssed it with him, Roger Lankford (sp) had two sources, an illustration and some sort of carving. IIRC the illustration was high status, a knight of some sort.Fox wrote:I recall (and this was nearly ten years ago, so I couldn't tell you where, or how) that I provinanced a bardiche to England in the 14thC. That evidence might, or might not, reach my higher standard of proof now.
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Daft 16thC weapons now
The gurt big lump o'wood

The agricultural scythe

Sickle (not like the one in The Hair Bear Bunch)

BDSM with a footmans flail

And a post combat cuddle

The gurt big lump o'wood

The agricultural scythe

Sickle (not like the one in The Hair Bear Bunch)

BDSM with a footmans flail

And a post combat cuddle

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Reconstructions of how to use them here-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-cgClKJbGg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97neHuFfPLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hui3G91Um4
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While the 'big lump of wood' was known of well before 1500, it was not until the 'enlightenment' of the renaisance saw all intelligence concentrated in the hands (heads?) of an elite few that the general public at large became SO stupid as to regard the 'big lump of wood' as a viable weapon. During the Middle Ages, most people had the good common sense to use far more effective weapons and keep the big lump of wood for more important purposes, like burning.


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Dreynshlag did a fantastic demo of scythe fighting a few years ago, dramatized as Paulus Hector Mair (author of those fechtbuchs) vs Death.Grymm wrote:Daft 16thC weapons now
The gurt big lump o'wood
The agricultural scythe
Sickle (not like the one in The Hair Bear Bunch)
BDSM with a footmans flail
And a post combat cuddle
The whole thing was sub-titled by people with large sheets of paper with the script written on them
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