My latest Norse kit

 Hail friends. I'm not a re-enactor, but I do hang around with them and get some good advice. I managed to put together some reasonably authentic hand stitched clothing and panoply, though it still falls short of in some ways, it's fine for a beginner. I guess, as I'm a skilled melee fighter with a score years behind me, I can wear this stuff without it being theatrical; I can fight. The intention of getting Norse fighting kit together was to train with winged spear, 36" skjald, sword and axe, using some Hurstwic training DVDs and some basic understanding from my old studies of HEMA.



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