Recreacionismo: Decoración de escudos

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Diseños para escudos / Designs for shields

NOMBRES NÓRDICOS DE LAS PARTES DE UN ESCUDO
OLD NORSE NAMES FOR THE PARTS OF A SHIELD

Espada Valkyrja

The Valkyrja (Type AE)

Espada La Valkiria (Valkyrja). Se le ha dado este nombre a la espada encontrada en Finlandia (Sountaka, Tyrväntö, Tavastland), en la tumba de una posible mujer guerrera. Es una variante del Tipo AE, del siglo XI. El pomo tiene una decoración en bajorrelieve típica del estilo Urmes (animal serpentiforme, lazos).

Sword The Valkyrie (Valkyrja). It was given this name to the sword found in Finland (Sountaka, Tyrväntö, Tavastland), in the tomb of a possible warrior woman. It is a variant of type AE, the eleventh century. The knob has a bas-relief typical Urmes decoration style (serpentine animal, knots).

The Albion Valkyrja Next Generation Limited Edition Hand Crafted Viking Sword

Albion Swords hizo una recreacción de esta espada, en una edición limitada de 100 ejemplares, a 1200$, que pronto se agotó. 

Albion Swords made a reconstruction of the sword, in a limited edition of 100, $ 1200, soon ran out.

Recreacionismo: Vaina para espada

Viking sword scabbardby ~DarkSunTattoo

TUTORIAL DE CC ESPADAS ARTESANALES: Vaina medieval (s.VI al IX)

Libro: Territorio Vikingo

Un recorrido por el pasado y el presente 

de los lugares más importantes relacionados con los vikingos.

Toma tu mochila y prepárate para realizar un viaje alucinante al territorio que recorrieron los vikingos hace siglos gracias a Manuel Velasco, incansable viajero que ha puesto rumbo norte en numerosas ocasiones, para ver por sí mismo aquello que los libros cuentan y así poder dar su visión personal de los hechos.  

Partiendo de la isla de Gotland en Suecia, continuarás hacia Noruega, Dinamarca e Islandia, pasando por las Islas Británicas y terminando en Francia en una región que pasó a llamarse Normandía, último gérmen de un acontecimiento que marcaría definitivamente la historia del mundo. Territorio vikingo te ayudará a descubrir, de la mano de su autor, este pueblo cuajado de leyendas y aventuras, su atractiva historia, sus curiosas costumbres y sus increíbles viajes en sus característicos barcos. Te mostrará, a través de multitud de fotos y descripciones de los museos, festivales y lugares emblemáticos, el maravilloso mundo de los vikingos, incluso te sentirás como uno de ellos en una época no tan lejana en la que dominaron gran parte del mundo conocido. 

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Libro: Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques

Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques

William R. Short

Westholme Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-59416-076-9
232 pages
280 B/W illustrations

A history of the arms, armor, and individual fighting strategies 
of medieval Europe's most feared warriors.

A source of enduring fascination, the Vikings are the most famous raiders of medieval Europe. Despite the exciting and compelling descriptions in the Icelandic sagas and other contemporary accounts that have fueled this interest, we know comparatively little about Viking age arms and armor as compared to weapons from other historical periods. We know even less about how the weapons were used. While the sagas provide few specific combat details, the stories are invaluable. They were written by authors familiar with the use of weapons for an audience that, likewise, knew how to use them. Critically, the sagas describe how these weapons were wielded not by kings or gods, but by ordinary men, as part of their everyday lives. Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques provides an introduction to the arms and armor of the Vikings, the people who lived in Northern Europe during the Viking age, roughly the years 793–1066. Using a variety of available sources, including medieval martial arts treatises, and copiously illustrated with images of historical artifacts, battle sites, and demonstrations of modern replicas of Viking weapons, the author and his colleagues at Hurstwic (a Viking-age living history organization) and at the Higgins Armory Sword Guild have reconstructed the combat techniques of the Viking age and what is known about the defensive and offensive weapons of the time in general. Throughout, the author corrects some popular misconceptions about Viking warriors and warfare, such as the belief that their combat techniques were crude and blunt rather than sophisticated. In addition, the book provides an overview of Viking history and culture, focusing on the importance of weapons to the society as well as the Vikings’ lasting impact on Europe through their expeditions of trade and exploration.  kindle

Artesanía: Sax

Un sax es una espada corta, con un solo filo y una hoja de entre 30 y 60 cm, que se utilizaba principalmente durante la primera parte de la era vikinga. Al contrario que las espadas, que eran hechas por artesanos especializados, un sax, de elaboración más vasta, podía ser hecho por cualquier herrero.

My Dad's Viking Long Sax by ~Hrafns-Vikingr 

This Long Sax belongs to my dad, he made it quite a while ago. The blade was forged by a reenacting blacksmith, the carved bone handle with depiction of a jelling dragon was purchased at a local medieval fair. The hilt and pommel are handmade by my dad, i.e. exactly adpated to the handle, the latter consisting of 3 disks, first one of oil-hardened steel, second one of bronze and the third one again of oil-hardened steel. The leather sheath is done by me. Blade length is about 29 cm, total length of the sax is approx. 44 cm. The cast-bronze Odin's mask on the pommel is from the Aarhus picture stone.

Artesanía: Cuchillo de Gotland

Secuencia de fotos con el proceso de producción de un cuchillo vikingo
al estilo del original encontrado en la isla sueca de Gotland.

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Gotlandic Viking Knife 

by ~VendelRus / Deviantart

Herreros vikingos

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Jim Austin forjando un hacha / Jim Austin baerded viking axe



 Lee A Jones forjando una espada / Lee A Jones forging a viking-age sword



Creación de umbos para escudos de La Guardia, Chile / Viking shields

Armamento vikingo

Armamento usado en la película Outlander

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Viking sword: Clontarf (Albion Europe)

The Clontarf

This style of Viking era sword is referred to as a Type K hilt in Petersen's Typology, due to the distinctive five-lobed pommel and straight guard. Find places for this hilt form are broadly distributed across Europe and as far south as the Balkans, dating from the late 9th into the late 10th centuries.

The hilt components are investment cast in mild steel from original waxes carved by Leif Hansen under the direction of Peter Johnsson, based on Peter's first-hand examination and documentation of period originals of this type.

The blade is classified as a Geibig Type 2 (which some consider a sub-classification of the Oakeshott Type X), hand-ground from high-carbon steel to a fine satin finish, heat-treated by hand for maximum flexibility and to take a fine edge.

Specifications

Overall length: 91 cm (35.875")

Blade Length: 77 cm (30.375")

Blade width: 6 cm (2.25")

CoB: 16 cm (6.375")

CoP: 50 cm (20.625")

Weight (approx.): 1 kg (2.25 lbs)

Albion Europe

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Armas vikingas / Viking weapons

Armas forjadas por Kaarel-Kaspar Säre (Ugrik), de Estonia

Weapons forged by Kaarel-Kaspar Säre (Ugrik), from Estonia

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