I would be very happy to se what you gentlemn and ladies could come up with on the subject of pictures of reconstruated and original helmet of the type found in Sutton Hoo and Valsgärde and vendel and Ulltuna!
Just think they are beutiful beond amigination!
Thanks!!
Martin
Vendel.
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You can find a picture of my Sutton Hoo helmet replica at the above. It is made by David Roper.
Cheers,
Paul
You can find a picture of my Sutton Hoo helmet replica at the above. It is made by David Roper.
Cheers,
Paul
Try this site .
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Valentine armouries make repros of some of these.
Cheers,
Alexi
Another site discussed on this thread disappeared (along with all the photos I linked to).
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Valentine armouries make repros of some of these.
Cheers,
Alexi
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Some old saved pics i have :)
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Valsgärde 8
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pic of a pic, Valsgärde 5 not exacly copy of it
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Fantastic!!
I realy thimk these are wonders of craft. And from a time when most people think is the Dark Age. At least the workmanship in helmetmaking ws in a enlightened state...
Martin
I realy thimk these are wonders of craft. And from a time when most people think is the Dark Age. At least the workmanship in helmetmaking ws in a enlightened state...
Martin
:) And Ulltuna
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| Martin Wallgren wrote: |
| Fantastic!!
I realy thimk these are wonders of craft. And from a time when most people think is the Dark Age. At least the workmanship in helmetmaking ws in a enlightened state... Martin |
This ages were dark only for polemicists from other periods, the ones who followed different cultural and political models: most notably, the renaissance men who had aesthetical grudges against the old times they would call disparagingly gothic (the Goths were considered low level barbarians in Italy) or the french illuminist writers, who would describe everything that existed under the Ancien Regime as backward, unjust or cruel.
We today tend to use a combination of this two prejudices when looking at the high and low middle ages, forgetting that they produced exquisite writers like Dante or Chaucer, or that this was the age of chivalry, of bravery and of a spirituality that today has not been replaced by anything but sterile consumerism, leaving a soulless Europe.
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We today tend to use a combination of this two prejudices when looking at the high and low middle ages, forgetting that they produced exquisite writers like Dante or Chaucer, or that this was the age of chivalry, of bravery and of a spirituality that today has not been replaced by anything but sterile consumerism, leaving a soulless Europe. |
Amen! :cool:
:D Sävedal 4-1 :D
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Sävedal 4-1 ;-)
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| Martin Wallgren wrote: |
| Fantastic!!
I realy thimk these are wonders of craft. And from a time when most people think is the Dark Age. At least the workmanship in helmetmaking ws in a enlightened state... Martin |
I tend to think that one reason to call it the " Dark Ages " is that the amount of known original sources i.e. written history, surviving artifacts is relatively poor in quantity but not quality compared to other periods of history before or after? Or, that this is the impression of the period that 19th century historians had of this period, thus the name " Dark " as in the light of knowledge shining weakly !
More recent research may have filled in some of these " gaps " in knowledge ? Afterall, we seem to know something about the history during the age of Charlemagne and using multiple sources like historical records left from the Eastern Roman Empire or Arab historians etc ....... Crossreferencing many of these probably gives us much more information about the period than a 19th century scholar knowing only about his country's historical records and not giving any credence to
" Foreign " sources ! Add in national pride and jingoism to distort the " official " history of the " Motherland / Fatherland ".
With 19th century sources we get stuff like Viking with cow horns on their helmets ......... :eek: :lol:
Hi all
No pics. to offer, sorry. That front to back segemented pattern ridge is a predominant motif of these (as Martin says, BEAUTIFUL) helmets. What animal, real or mythical, is it thought to represent?
Geoff
No pics. to offer, sorry. That front to back segemented pattern ridge is a predominant motif of these (as Martin says, BEAUTIFUL) helmets. What animal, real or mythical, is it thought to represent?
Geoff
| Geoff Wood wrote: |
| Hi all
No pics. to offer, sorry. That front to back segemented pattern ridge is a predominant motif of these (as Martin says, BEAUTIFUL) helmets. What animal, real or mythical, is it thought to represent? Geoff |
It can be the Lindsnake or dragon Nidhögg in the worldtree Yggdrasil, Swedish version and English version about it in wikipedia
on Suttonhoo helmet are a bird to. :)
First is a pic of a reproducton by Ivor Lawton, the others are from the Ulhednar group...http://www.ulfhednar.org .
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Amen! :cool: |
Hey Folkert,
I'm not sure about my fellow europeans as I do not bother with TV or newspapers, but I definitely do not consider myself a sterile consumer.
I will however visit Deventer some day soon and spank you for insulting me and millions of other Europeans. ;)
That is, if you still attend the AMEK classes....
If you don't I'll have to join the Romans I guess.... :lol:
I'll get you eventually.
| Geoff Wood wrote: |
| Hi all
No pics. to offer, sorry. That front to back segemented pattern ridge is a predominant motif of these (as Martin says, BEAUTIFUL) helmets. What animal, real or mythical, is it thought to represent? Geoff |
To me, it looks like its supposed to represent the bristley back of a wild boar. In part because I just read a recent translation of Beowulf which makes refrence to the "boar-ridge" on helmets--and when I saw these pictures I had an "Ah-ha!" moment.
:) Medieval Reproductions have made there's version of a Beowulf helm with a wild boar on it,
who know's maybe some day they dig up Skalunda högen/hill and we will know hove it's look like,
rumors say's he or a king can be in there :cool:
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who know's maybe some day they dig up Skalunda högen/hill and we will know hove it's look like,
rumors say's he or a king can be in there :cool:
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| Patrik Erik Lars Lindblom wrote: | ||
It can be the Lindsnake or dragon Nidhögg in the worldtree Yggdrasil, Swedish version and English version about it in wikipedia on Suttonhoo helmet are a bird to. :) |
Tack Patrik
| Eric Allen wrote: | ||
To me, it looks like its supposed to represent the bristley back of a wild boar. In part because I just read a recent translation of Beowulf which makes refrence to the "boar-ridge" on helmets--and when I saw these pictures I had an "Ah-ha!" moment. |
Interesting idea. Thanks Eric.
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