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The Longbow Thread
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24-12-2013 11:17am#1A brief introductory overview of the longbow and a bit about my longbow.
I apologise for the sound quality being faint and poor, it was a distance from the camera and the Irish wind was whipping about.
Longbows (Holmguard variants) were first found in Denmark in 9,000 BC! This predates the first swords by over 5,000 years!
Our ancestors typically favored missile-weapons (cast weapons not the rocket type
before closing in for the kill...
The javelin was more popular historically with the Kerns / Irish folk but newcomers often brought bows with them from the Tuatha De Danann and Milesians up to the Normans and certain Anglo-Irish folk
A typical wood in Eire that is useful for making a bow is from the Ash tree...
In Wales the longbows tended to be made from the Elm Tree which was up to 80 to 90 lb in draw-weight. It's power shocked even the Normans who themselves used large forces of archers and crossbowmen.6
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