[Ansteorra] Early Archery Information

[C. L. Ward]

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If you don't get Primitive Archer you probably ought to.
         http://www.primitivearcher.com/
There are a lot of articles having to do with the history of archery and the
tackle from many cultures. Lots of how-to articles. The Fall issue is on an
international horse archery meet and includes Japanese, Hungarian and
Mongolian archers. Other articles include the Medieval Fletcher, finding,
felling,  and fetching bow stave trees, Breaking in bows, Maurice Thompson
part II (this was a seminal American 19th C. archer), the all bamboo
laminated bow. Do it yourself rawhide, many providers of horn, sinew,
staves, strings, etc.  Very good magazine. I highly recommend it. I think
you can still buy all but one of the whole set.

http://www.instinctivearcher.com/ is another very good one. Hugh Soar of the
English Archer-Antiquaries writes for it too.  Old archer-Antiquaries
articles are sometimes run in it as well.

They seem to have inspired Germany and Austria's first  archery magazines as
well. http://www.pfeilundbogen.com/ and http://www.bogenschiessen.com/

The Second International Horse Archery Festival will be at the Webster
County Fairgrounds, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sept. 6-9, 2001. Traditions from
Japan, Korea, China, Sudan, Native American
and elsewhere. For further information contact  Yumi at 519-595-8791, or Meg
Beshey at 515-573-5996, or http://www.horsearchery.com/ They will have
actual classes. Since horsearchery is involved I would expect Steppes style
as well.

I'm very glad to see archery turning around after thirty  years of compound
mechanical bows messing up the real stuff.  I used to shoot and teach
multiple styles myself. My teacher
was a three time former F.I.T.A. world champion and later sat  on the first
Olympics Committee for Archery. I can't pull a bow anymore with the FMS I
have, but I still like reading and
researching the art. After thirty five years I have quite a collection of
relevant books and articles/magazines.

I saw on the Regia-North America list that Revival magazine quit after two
years/eight issues. For those that don't know  it was a magazine on European
reenactors of many periods.

The Regia group is reachable through Tom at netword.com It's the North American
start of Regia Anglorum here, not quite a year old. http://www.Regia.org/
950-1066 AD.

Renaissance Magazine on the other hand seems to be extremely popular. I see
huge stacks of the thing coming into the local Barnes and Nobles. Virginia
dropped it's Rennaisance Fair this year, and North Carolina has gone from
two to three different ones - Charlotte, Asheville, and Raleigh. Raleigh is
about to get a Medieval Restaurant in the snooty Cary  suburb.

Magnus Malleus, OL, GDH, Atlantia © R.M. Howe, Raleigh, NC
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