01-25-2011, 12:53 AM
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find infromation about Germanic combat techniques using a variety of weapons (spears, swords, clubs, etc). I saw a documentery called 'Warriors' or something like that where one of the members of the Chasuari reenactment group was showing the host combat techniques with a club and spear. I did find some some infromation on Viking combat technic on the Hurstwic website: http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles...hnique.htm
Would this be a good guess for 1st century Germanic combat techniques? I also found some information on Irish spear fighting. It looks pretty believable, but spear and shield technique uses very small bucklers (Germanic shields were far larger, though they may have been light enough to use in the same style).
1) Irish two handed spear fighting: http://tutorials.livinghistory.ie/Home/ ... mbat-guide
2)Irish Single handed spear fighting: http://tutorials.livinghistory.ie/Home/ ... mbat-guide
For clubs, the main technique I could see being used was the 'block and hit' method. However, seeing the skilled use of the clubs in the documentery, there must have been an actual technique to club fighting.
any ideas or theories on this?
Dan
I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find infromation about Germanic combat techniques using a variety of weapons (spears, swords, clubs, etc). I saw a documentery called 'Warriors' or something like that where one of the members of the Chasuari reenactment group was showing the host combat techniques with a club and spear. I did find some some infromation on Viking combat technic on the Hurstwic website: http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles...hnique.htm
Would this be a good guess for 1st century Germanic combat techniques? I also found some information on Irish spear fighting. It looks pretty believable, but spear and shield technique uses very small bucklers (Germanic shields were far larger, though they may have been light enough to use in the same style).
1) Irish two handed spear fighting: http://tutorials.livinghistory.ie/Home/ ... mbat-guide
2)Irish Single handed spear fighting: http://tutorials.livinghistory.ie/Home/ ... mbat-guide
For clubs, the main technique I could see being used was the 'block and hit' method. However, seeing the skilled use of the clubs in the documentery, there must have been an actual technique to club fighting.
any ideas or theories on this?
Dan
