[Bryn-gwlad] Armor

[Bernard Wright]

If you are going to wear mail as part of your hard kit, I would not go butted (too heavy and it fails apart) and stear towards rivited (which you can make yourself with the proper tools) or get from an India importer or welded.
   
  The problem with early period is that to do an accurate kit, you really need the mail, which for our game is dead weight and then you often end up with a generic (insert name here) SCA personna or worse a Road Warrior extra without the mail....now if that dosen't bother you then have fun. But I believe that an accurate early period kit is harder to do than say a 14c. kit.
   
  -barnet, who is still stumbling down the armour road to a better kit 
   
   
   
  

Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
    An individual Norse is unlikely to have travelled to places as divergent at England and Russia and Byzantium. The Norse were not a uniform culture and if you look at the maps showing who went raiding/trading where, you will see that those on the western coasts of Scandinavia were the ones who went to the British Isles and down into France, while the Norse of the eastern side of Scandinavia were the ones likely to travel to Byzantium by way of Russia.
  

  I also agree with Martel though, that to a large extent the armor throughout Europe was very similar during this time period.
  

  For an overview of the armor from that time period I would look at some of the "Men-at-Arms"? books. The thin paperbacks, 8 1/2 inches by 11? with the many color sketches in them.
  

  Rather than look like the usual SCA fighter though in a hodge-podge of mis-matched armor from different cultures and times, I'd recommend picking something like the Norwegian Norse or more general Norse armor and work towards that.
  

  I, or others, would be happy to teach you how to knit your own mail. It is time consuming, though.
  

  Stefan

    On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:08 PM, jan_downs at netzero.net wrote:
    www.armourarchive.org 
  Search around there. If a 10th cent Viking had armour, it would most likely have been a mail shirt, a conical helmet of spangen construction and round sheild with a boss. An argument could be made for a lamellar cuirass if our Viking had any contact with Byzantium.
  Martel

-- Jason Baiocchi <jpbaiocchi at live.com> wrote:
In my spare time I have been trying to look for armour the would suit my persona, which is a(successful) 10th century Viking Raider from Norway. I figure that as a raider my character would naturally travelled all around the face Europe and picked up some souvenir armour from various cultures amongst the expeditions. I would like to know where I could find good examples of the amour dress worn by other peoples from the same time era. (Such as Byzantine, English, French, Kievan Rus, Arabic, etc...) 
 
HÃ¥kon inn havi

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