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Subject: Norse style fightng... Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:14 pm
Here's a video from "higgins sword acadamey" something like that. They are doing simple slow drill work for Viking style fighting. There are also links to lots of Norse reenactment fighting vid's.
Konradr
konradr
Posts : 3563 Join date : 2009-03-10 Age : 59 Location : Las Vegas/Henderson
Interesting tidbit on use of Pre-viking and viking era shields...
Quote :
Analysis of battle damage to weapons from the massive Roman Iron Age deposit of Nydham indicated the primary use for the large round shields was in fending off missiles, while sword duels were conducted blade on blade (Schloß Gottorf: Archäologische Landesmuseum der Christian-Albrechts Universität, Schleswig Germany: pers. obs. 1994). However, the use of shields in hand to hand combat is recorded in customs such as the holmgang duel. The heavy iron construction of the Viking Age boss is unlike the Roman Iron Age examples of thin bronze, perhaps indicating a change to a hand-to-hand fighting style in which parrys with the boss were possible. The thin boards would split easily, and could perhaps have been deliberately made so, in order to snare an attacker's blade.
Sizes of shields were generally between 30 and 36".
Konradr
Luger
Posts : 8 Join date : 2011-05-11 Age : 36
Subject: Re: Norse style fightng... Wed May 11, 2011 6:45 am
I have a 30" round punch made in viking style. I love it ;3