Viking bow longbow from the Nydam finds
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Another apprentice piece from my past, I was tasked with making a bow based on the `Nydam Finds`, for the sake of argument I refer to it as `Viking` so people get a rough idea of the area of the world it's from, but not technically Viking as far as the period goes, but you all knew that, right?
Below is a link to more info about the Nydam finds and the video I did on the making of the Nydam arrows.
Nydam Finds
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Nydam Arrow video
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Thanks for an interesting explanation of this style of bow.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's really fascinating! I love the side nock, but also the spear point, very aggressive. Marvel need to take on Tudor Man for their next movie.
Thanks. I will get on to Marvel straight away.
Beautiful and unique piece.
Thank you! Cheers!
the spike speaks volumes. thank yew.
I'm willing to bet that these nydam bows were for hunting on skis. I've seen engravings of Scandinavian ski hunters with bows that are tipped like how ski poles are tipped. Kind of like combining a ski pole with a hunters bow. If you are a ski hunter, using a ski staff and a bow separately would be so cumbersome! So I think they were combined like in the engravings, hence the nydam bows.
Interesting!
Interesting! I wonder how much that spike affects arrow speed and bow noise. It would be interesting to compare how the bow shot with and without it. The little string-keeping peg is a brilliant touch if the bow was really used as a last-ditch melee weapon. I think I'd rather just use the bow as a bow, and carry a sidearm for fending off attacking Frenchmen. The idea that it might have been used as a ski pole is interesting too. I always enjoy learning how different people solved these problems.
the guy who purchayit did experimental shooting with it, the spike does indeed affect it as you would expect.
Great video as usual 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Another great content video. 🏹
Glad you think so!
Excellent!!!! 👍👍
Thanks for the visit
the spike is a bayonet of the bow.
Yes indeed
Very nice. That seems like a good scout / forager's weapon. Light , versatile. I wonder how well it shoots and recoils with that heavy spike tip.
Thanks. To be honest the spike isn't that heavy, it's quite thin.
@@longbows Hmmm, my archery coach was uptight about the weight of anything extra on the bow limbs... claimed it reduced arrow speed.
I always thought he was a bit too precious about it.
@@RAkers-tu1ey he probably never had someone charge at him with an axe. Don't think he would mind a little handshock in that case
Good stuff as usual young Phillip. Flaxen Saxon.😂
Great!
Sweet sweet bow
Thanks, I hope you subscribe to see more.
Very nice bow!
What's the draw weight? Considering the point of anchor that you mentioned (to the chest) and what's the weight of the arrows that you are supposed to use it with?
I have no idea, never weighed either as they were apprentice peices and not intended for sale.
@@longbows supposedly the wrappings sinew was covering over the yew belly knots?
Very interesting!
Glad you think so!
Fyi, the y in nydham is pronounced like ü in German/Turkish. The -ham is also more like 'hum' in English
thanks for the help
Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed
Fantastic presentation Phillip, thank you! I'm looking for a new project and am going to try a Nydam replica myself I think. :)
Interesting thought though...the 'Viking' period is largely considered late 8th Century to 1000AD (give or take) and the Nydam boat was dated to the Late Roman Iron Age (200AD-400AD ish). It is Danish (as we refer to the area nowadays), but during the 5th Century many people from the Jutland Peninsular (Jutes and Angles) migrated to the British Isles and became what is referred to later as the Anglo Saxons. I would argue that this find could be considered more a pre-cursor to Anglo Saxon technology than Viking, or perhaps both? Do you think this fair?
If we assume it is for a moment, the Anglo Saxons were famous for their lack of sailable boats (the Nydam find had no keel or sail and was only rowable) and they did not use bows in warfare for another few hundred years...the bow was only used as a hunting weapon through the migration period. With this in mind, perhaps it is not a war bow, but a hunting bow, and the spike on the end perhaps employed to 'finish' an animal that has been felled by the arrow but not killed outright? I wonder at it's practicality as a spear or pike in a military context, given it's lightweight, however as a hunting weapon, it could be a two-in-one concept.
Does your knowledge and research corroborate my thoughts as a possibility, or is there something I'm missing that indicates this was definitely used in warfare? My knowledge of the Nydam find specifically is limited and am basing these thoughts on a generic understanding of the period. Either way...a beautiful and unique piece of kit!
Thanks for sharing :)
I came here for the bow, but I stayed here for the britches.
Thou has taste
I have a yew bow, that a got from a 70 year old that put the sapling in the ground , he cut the limb for me and I led it dry for a year , her name is Nottingham. Because of the wiggly node's in the branch she a 56 inches
No wonder Vikings were so formidable, they sound just like Daleks.
lol
Haha! There is no prof that we had horn in the helmet 👊😂
Glad you got the joke.
Not to sure about that spike, would make the release very uneven, that limb would release slower then the opposite limb. Also is their any historical evidence that mentions spiked tipped bows used by the vikings.
It makes no noticeable difference having tried it, and the archer compensates anyway. As the vide mentioned these are based on the Nydam finds, which had a spike.
@@longbows As another piece of the puzzle is put into place, been involved with hema for years now and viking sword and sheild have long been one of my favoured practices, but their is very very little discovered for how the vikings actually used their weapons. You have the sagas but these are not treaties or training manuals and explain nothing about the actual techniques used. We have used Talhoffer's manuals from the about the mid 14th century on the use of large centre grip sheilds and even though it is incomplete what he has shown matches the simple stone carvings left by the vikings for one on one sword and shield combat.
Glad I could help.
I'd pay for a bow like that.
Very kind of you to say. What bows do you have?
Phillip
Was the Viking bows made from any other wood then the traditional ELB wood ?
Thanks Herb in USA
Hi, yes, they used different wood to the ELB
so what is the problem with saying Viking?
Its not quite the correct time period
what are bow strings typically made of?
A modern man made fibre, called b55
@@longbows PEROD strings were frequently made of hemp or linen
The strings I made for MY bow are ALSO B55
In the US, hemp is sort of a no-no(a cousin of cannabis, y'know), and the only linen I can get is sewing thread. I've never had the urge, the patience, or the NERVE, to try making a WORKING bowstring out of it
That's supposed to be PERIOD
the spike seems like a great idea, until you start to think how it will unbalance the limbs. So, you`ll need a counterweight on the other end, and now you just made your bow slower. dammit physics, stop being a dick to my weapons!!1!
It doesent weigh that much, and any discrepancy would be accounted for by the archer.
Maybe they were carry’s like a bayonet by the archer and added to the bow when no arrows were available at close quarters in battle
At the end of the day they were trying to kill and mame people any way they could not stick a arrow in the centre of a target 90 meters away so a big bloody spike at the end of the bow is a good way to kill someone
Когда лук ломается,остриё прилетит вам прямо в лицо...
No, it wont.
VIKING - VIKING -VIKING - VIKING -VIKING - VIKING - See, I said it 6 times, while looking in a mirror, and swinging a Dane (VIKING) Axe over my head, and, nothing. Apparently, there is no actual magic spell linked to the use of the word - VIKING!
Then why have all my flowers died?
@@longbows Irate Nordophiles?
Why does your viking have a bad Welsh accent?
Because I am a bad Welsh person.