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Old 03-12-2003, 01:49 PM
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Most bucklers of this size used just a center bar grip. (if you look close in the movie Dana mentioned that's how they are built and that is how the Vikings actually did make them. BTW there was a real mish mash of arms and armor in that movie, everything from 10th century swords to 15th century plate so don't take it as gospel. Also if you didn't realize it the book it's taken from, Eater's of the Dead, is based on the actual journals of an Arab traveler, Ibn Fadlan. Nat'l Geo did an article on the man and his travels sometime back.)

Larger round shields such as Scottish targes and such, usually had the center bar grip and then a wrist strap rivetted on to one side.

I'm swamped with trying to catch up after having the flu, but I'll try and find some images in my mess of a filing system and post them.


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