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dimensions for a Viking bow replica?

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Dane:

--- Quote from: a finnish native on April 16, 2007, 05:15:00 pm ---Dane, please do post the link ;)

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Here we are. Two links you guys might find very useful.

Dane

http://www.vikingsna.org/translations/hedeby%20bows/
http://www.vikingsna.org/translations/hedeby%20quivers/

duffontap:
Awesome Dane.  I'm headed to the shop.  Oh, wait, I'm at work.

         J. D. Duff

Dane:
Glad you liked it, JD. Making a Viking bow would be fun, and a matching quiver would not hurt either.

I love Viking stuff. Facinating culture, and great crafts and arts. The Sagas are some of the world's great vernacular literature, as well. Some archery related tales in there. One morale is, don't piss off your woman, if you want to later make a string from her hair when the enemy is coming to get you. 

Dane

a finnish native:
thanks for the links Dane! Now I just need to find some yew..

sagitarius boemoru:
What is interesting is tips, which suggest heavy weights, because they are simply so bulky, that these bows dont work with low weights.
I have seen quite few "replicas" in yew and none under 60# is worth a dime as a shooter. Certainly not a bow from description of archery shootouts in Sagas.
The big bow was probably 130# and the smaller from Hedaby probably around 80#. Balindery was surelly 100# if not more...


J.

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