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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Bowman on November 07, 2012, 03:34:58 pm

Title: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Bowman on November 07, 2012, 03:34:58 pm

Wytch elm. 191 cm. Brown leather dye. 65#-28. B-50. Rare viking longbow. Sold to a friend of mine, the skipper on the replica "Osebergskipet" build in Tønsberg Norway and finished in summer 2012.
(http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/bj-ronn/IMG_6344.jpg)
(http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/bj-ronn/IMG_6343.jpg)
(http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/bj-ronn/IMG_6342.jpg)
(http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/bj-ronn/IMG_6341.jpg)
(http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/bj-ronn/IMG_6340.jpg)
:)

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: briarjumper12 on November 07, 2012, 03:44:49 pm

I like it.

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: hatcha on November 07, 2012, 03:56:54 pm

Beautifully simple...

and simply beautiful!!

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Onebowonder on November 07, 2012, 04:16:32 pm

Never seen such nocks.  Interesting...

OneBow

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Bowman on November 07, 2012, 04:21:50 pm

 :D Sidenock at the upper limb  and no nock at the other. Just a knot. :-) Viking style. These bows were build in yew and elm. The original in yew was a real monster. 140#. 40/33mm in cross section.  Thats a fat bow. :-)

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: sharpend60 on November 07, 2012, 04:23:46 pm

Thats pretty cool.

I havnt seen one like it.

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: JackCrafty on November 07, 2012, 04:27:25 pm

Sweetness!  Awesome job! 8)

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Ifrit617 on November 07, 2012, 06:47:39 pm

really cool bow! Love everything about it!

Jon

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Bowman on November 07, 2012, 06:51:44 pm

Thanks. It's a simple and cool bow, - yes. :-)

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: lesken2011 on November 07, 2012, 07:45:52 pm

Clean and simple. Nice job!!

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: H Rhodes on November 07, 2012, 09:20:31 pm

That's awesome.  I have never seen one just like it.  Beautiful wood.

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: 1Brotherbill on November 08, 2012, 06:55:36 pm

Is that the bow type that doubled as a ski pole hence the strange nock or am I thinking of the laminate bow that had spruce on the belly and birch on the back. 

Old Scandinavian bows are very interesting. 

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: missilemaster on November 08, 2012, 10:15:16 pm

I like the simplicity of that one.

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Keenan on November 08, 2012, 11:36:57 pm

That is pure clean simplicity, very nice!

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: lostarrow on November 09, 2012, 12:08:29 am

best of all is where it is going to.Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Bowman on November 09, 2012, 03:42:47 am

Quote from: 1Brotherbill on November 08, 2012, 06:55:36 pm

Is that the bow type that doubled as a ski pole hence the strange nock or am I thinking of the laminate bow that had spruce on the belly and birch on the back. 

Old Scandinavian bows are very interesting.

Thats not the same bow. You are thinking about a laminate bow which belongs to the old native norwegians. "samene" The people with the "reindeers" and the wood in this bows were birch and pine.
That kind of bows were common in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. "Kviljo" has made those bows.:-)
The "Haithabu" bow is from Denmark/northern Germany. It's datet to the 8. century.
Thank you for pleasent comments.


:-)

Title: Re: Haithabu viking bow
Post by: Parnell on November 09, 2012, 12:05:20 pm

Interesting design, I like it's elegance.