I've been doing some historical digging into the original Møllegabet archeological find, and found some interesting information from German archeologist and bowyer, Juergen Junkmanns. Juergen did his Masters and is now working on his Doctorate on Prehistoric Bows and Arrows of Europe.
Møllegabet BTW is pronounced more like "Mull gabbet" than "Molly ga-bet". It's not from the Viking era, but from 6000 years earlier. The Møllegabet site is under something like waist deep water. 7000 years ago it was back from the beach a ways.
Anyway... it turns out that the Møllegabet bow, discovered about a decade ago, is undoubtedly a youth bow. Made for a well-to do youth, no doubt. It's the only one of its kind ever found. Tribal variant of the Holmgaard design? Completely different tradition? We'll probably never know for sure. Suffice it to say the Møllegabet and Holmgaard designs are decidedly different.
The complete bow wasn't recovered but what was preserved tells us that it was between 39 and 48 inches long (the tips were not recovered), and made from Elm (there are no yew bows in prehistoric Europe). Draw weight somewhere between 20 and 45 pounds. The working limbs were about 1-1/4" wide, and slightly less than 1/2" thick. The stiff tips were about slightly less than 1/2" wide at mid-limb taper, slightly more than 1/2" thick, and tapering towards narrow nocks.
Sounds almost exactly like what you made Half-Eye!! Make me wonder if your "Oops! Guess I'll make a smaller bow out of the broken bits" is how the original came to be made over 7000 years ago. History does repeat itself...
