"Five Fun Facts About Medieval Archery" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Jul 2016 10:32 p.m. PST |
"I recently spent some time learning all about medieval archery, and found some really interesting and odd facts to share with you. Here are five fun facts about medieval archery which you can use to impress your friends…"
See here
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| GeoffQRF | 28 Jul 2016 4:34 a.m. PST |
"As any archer will tell you, it's very handy to wear a bracer (or armguard) on the inside forearm of your bow arm for those times when your form starts to slip and the bowstring can whack you as you release. This is a very painful occurrence, and can leave a big, long-lasting bruise." As any archer will tell you, if its hitting your arm you are doing it wrong :-) The bracer's primary purpose is to keep loose clothing out of the way. "an unstrung bow could also inflict some serious damage when wielded as a club" There is some evidence to suggest that some longbows were fitted with metal tips. "Everyone was being encouraged to have these weapons around and to know how to use them" Actually it was the law that every boy over the age of seven own a bow and two arrows and be trained in its use. |
| Great War Ace | 28 Jul 2016 8:30 a.m. PST |
The ill-equipped archer passage is obviously an attempt to meet archers halfway. If they brought the bow, the recruiter would make sure that arrow heads and bow strings would be supplied. I doubt that this anecdote describes a practice in general use. |
| Andrew Walters | 28 Jul 2016 9:33 a.m. PST |
The writer seems won over by the fire arrow propagandists. I'm in the camp that holds they were used infrequently for special purposes. |
GildasFacit  | 28 Jul 2016 11:39 a.m. PST |
'five fun facts' just about sums it up really. |
| Great War Ace | 28 Jul 2016 2:16 p.m. PST |
Well of course, Special arrows for special jobs. Fire arrows were used a lot. Sieges were much more common than open battles. I remember in Timeline: "Night Arrows". Arrows that were not flaming arrows, so nobody could see them coming. Eh? It seemed like a natural distinction for the target audience (no pun intended), because they are so used to seeing flaming arrows all, the, time…. |
| Patrick R | 29 Jul 2016 3:08 a.m. PST |
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| GeoffQRF | 29 Jul 2016 6:46 a.m. PST |
"…in summary… no… and just no" :-D |
| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2016 11:35 a.m. PST |
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| uglyfatbloke | 29 Jul 2016 2:11 p.m. PST |
GWA…I'd suspect that the arrowless archer with his unsaddled horse is probably an example of medieval humour. Grahams of Cultoquey were required to leave two pennies on a certain window sill as the reddendo of their estate. It was n't a huge estate admittedly – the sort of thing that would generally be subject to the service of one knight – or even half a knight.
GeoffQRS…absolutely. |
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