07-23-2007, 08:11 PM
Hi Dave,
My group Letavia is doing late Vth century re-enactment of Briton/Breton warriors. We are actually infantry, yet Im thinking about doing a horsman one day.
There isn't a lot of information available about how Britons looked in the VIth century, but it can be guessed thanks to the influences of their neighbors, of the Romans, etc.
A Brythonic horseman would have been likely to weild a round shield and several javelins to pepper the ennemy. A wealthy warrior may have been able to buy a spangenhelm, a spatha and lorica hamata or squamata. Some think that they still sometimes charge as did the cataphracts with the great lance of sarmatian origin, the contus.
My group Letavia is doing late Vth century re-enactment of Briton/Breton warriors. We are actually infantry, yet Im thinking about doing a horsman one day.
There isn't a lot of information available about how Britons looked in the VIth century, but it can be guessed thanks to the influences of their neighbors, of the Romans, etc.
A Brythonic horseman would have been likely to weild a round shield and several javelins to pepper the ennemy. A wealthy warrior may have been able to buy a spangenhelm, a spatha and lorica hamata or squamata. Some think that they still sometimes charge as did the cataphracts with the great lance of sarmatian origin, the contus.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
