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Cymru style ash bow ideas?
mole:
I read and enjoyed the first two books, but haven't had time to request and read the third. I don't remember much about the description of the bow and its use. I just remember my opinion as being that the author needed to do more research on the matter.
PaulN/KS:
OK, correct me as you will but, after the Saxons invaded and settled most of England were not the English pushed into the region now refered to as Wales...? I recall that "Wales" or "Welsh" was a Saxon term for "strangers"... or something like that?
So, would not a Welsh warbow then be an English warbow in the earlier development stage...? ;)
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: PaulN/KS on May 24, 2010, 03:30:26 pm ---OK, correct me as you will but, after the Saxons invaded and settled most of England were not the English pushed into the region now refered to as Wales...? I recall that "Wales" or "Welsh" was a Saxon term for "strangers"... or something like that?
So, would not a Welsh warbow then be an English warbow in the earlier development stage...? ;)
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Corrrecting you----After the Angles. Saxons, and Jutes settled in England, the British [ the English were descended from the ones coming in} who did not flee as refugees to Brittany, were pushed into the less hospitable areas like the Cornish penninsula and the western mountains, now Wales. "Welsh" was indeed a Saxon word meaning "foreigners" and the word was applied to the British Cymry people. Since we have so little information on Welsh bows, and longbows were already thoroughly developed and very well known to the invaders [see Nydam Bog}, the Welsh can hardly get a patent on an invention already three thousand years old.
PaulN/KS:
--- Quote from: bow-toxo on May 24, 2010, 04:30:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: PaulN/KS on May 24, 2010, 03:30:26 pm ---OK, correct me as you will but, after the Saxons invaded and settled most of England were not the English pushed into the region now refered to as Wales...? I recall that "Wales" or "Welsh" was a Saxon term for "strangers"... or something like that?
So, would not a Welsh warbow then be an English warbow in the earlier development stage...? ;)
--- End quote ---
Corrrecting you----After the Angles. Saxons, and Jutes settled in England, the British [ the English were descended from the ones coming in} who did not flee as refugees to Brittany, were pushed into the less hospitable areas like the Cornish penninsula and the western mountains, now Wales. "Welsh" was indeed a Saxon word meaning "foreigners" and the word was applied to the British Cymry people. Since we have so little information on Welsh bows, and longbows were already thoroughly developed and very well known to the invaders [see Nydam Bog}, the Welsh can hardly get a patent on an invention already three thousand years old.
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And I thank you for the information...
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