[Sca-cooks] quarterstaffs
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Fri Jun 3 23:50:57 PDT 2005
>Bear commented:
>> > IIRC the Brits, during their foray into Ireland, criminalized the carrying
>>> of staffs over a certain thickness and length. Anyone recall the
>>> particulars?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
>>I don't recall seeing this but I can believe it. There is a tale about a
>>French general who declared a company of Irishmen with shillelaghs to be
>>against the rules of civilized warfare. And in the late 13th Century, the
>>Lincolnshire court records showed that the most common implement of unlawful
>>death was the quarterstaff.
>
>Yes. I believe I've got somewhere comments that a good quarterstaff
>man was the equal of a good swordsman in period. Use of the
>quarterstaff was banned early on in SCA combat for safety reasons.
>
>I thought a "shillelagh" was a sword. It is a staff?
A cudgel. I think of it as a one handed rather than two handed
weapon, and much shorter than a quarterstaff.
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