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How or why did the English become a bow culture?
jb.68:
--- Quote from: axel on June 03, 2007, 06:28:41 pm ---all people have been using the bow.
axel
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Just to pick you up on this statement, I think you'll find that NOT ALL people have had the bow. The Aboriginal peoples of Australia never used the bow. They got by with other weapons, ie the boomerang. The reason for this I believe is that the land mass that is Aus' separated from the main landmass before the invention of the bow and therefore the knowledge of the bow was not taken with them.
SimonUK:
Out of interest, are there many sayings in other countries related to archery? For example in England we have sayings such as 'highly strung', 'two strings to his bow', 'bolt upright' etc. We have many of these which shows that archery used to be an important part of every day life.
Dane:
--- Quote from: Loki on June 03, 2007, 07:19:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: axel on June 03, 2007, 06:28:41 pm ---all people have been using the bow. th e english culture is a dominating culture now, most focus is on that today. people of english origin writing the bowyersbible and so on. ....silly, but therefore most people think that they are more bow culture than for example the scandinavian or other. england is a tiny little country with 60 milion people.. and so on and so on. dont think its about bow culture.
axel
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???
What dont you think is about Bow culture?
The difference between the English and the Scandanavians (the same people) is the English used the Bow en masse for War,making laws to encourage Archery etc etc blah blah...
A lot of finds have been made in England because we have excellent archeologists and the bogs and peat marsh's are excellent for preserving artifacts.Its not because were tripping over each other in our tiny overcrowded bit of the Isle ;D,were not Hobbits you know we dont live in the ground :D.
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What, you are not all hobbits over there? :) I myself would love a hobbit hole, if it is nice as Baggins' place.
Loki:
Nah mate,we have even given up the Fatch Roofs! ;D
Did Axel register here just to make that post ???
:D ;D :) :P ;D
axel:
No i didn't register here to write this post even though it may be my first. Maybe it was too harsh put by me but, we have those sayings in scandinavia too about bows in everyday life. But I do not think britain is more of a bow culture than scandinavia, hungary, mongolia, turky, buthan etc etc. It might be a bowculture. one contry among many other. :)
by the way. have alots of mideaval longbows been found exept the mary rose?
Axel
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