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The White CouncilRe: Swash and buckleTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Swash and buckleTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Martin Read on March 08, 2000 at 04:49:37 In Reply to: Re: Swash and buckle posted by Neithan on March 07, 2000 at 17:07:29:
: This is all very fine in theory, and possibly even under very special circumstances, BUT, have you two tried it? I routinely fight with sword and axe or sword and shield, and I do not let my opponent in close enough for that sort of thing as I will already be at his mercy before it. In theory and special circumstances, true, in practical combat I said and will maintain; it is a move that will get you killed. : As for bayonet-like shield bosses, Martin, as a scholar of the late westroman empire you must surely have encountered the treatise on warfare with the weird ideas- the one with ox-driven ships and scythe-armed chariots. And look at Hitler's wonderweapons. That mad scientists have theorised over weapons does not make them practically usable. Just as architects' drawings for houses are often practicably undoable. : NT Well the Late Roman contraptions remained theoretical, as far as we know, much like Leonardo's designs in the Rennaisance. The blades on some Scottish targe bosses were real, indeed some still exist. In addition the Indo-Persian region produced many "Parrying shields" or "Parrying sticks" which generally had a central small buckler from which sizable blades sprang in various directions. I cannot believe that all these devices were merely for show. In practical terms the "Left-hand dagger" used in fencing in the Elizabethan era and later was in effect a shielding device capable of offensive action, many indeed had large solid guards so were not unlike small bucklers in use.
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