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How or why did the English become a bow culture?
axel:
is rule of thumb archery related? in that case we have it to.
Pat B:
In one of the old PA magazines(I believe) there is a list of old archery related sayings. Pat
axel:
Loki:
"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..."
- In 1325 a law in sweden, at least some major provinces, said that all men must have a bow and a number of arrows(i hav'nt really figured out how many yet...)
That tells me that we had big numbers of archers too=bow culture. But ofcourse the population here cannot be compared to brittain...
Loki:
I wasnt saying the Scandanavians dont have a Bow culture Axel,i thought you were saying the English havent,which is wrong.
axel:
I don't mean to be offensive. Trying to say that britain isn't really more of a bowculture than many other. It kind of irritates me a little all this talk about Britain, ELB, and warbows(english ofcourse ;)) . think the discussion could be a little bit more precise and not so amateure-scientist like. Too often a half-truth turn into a truth and is all of sudden a widespread fact everyone seem to accept!? That is generaly speaking.
Ok i rest my case. :) Peace.
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