What a journey.......

Leo the Wise (866 - 912)...
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....14/f121079.htm

...writes about the Hungarians having Composite bows.
http://www2.4dcomm.com/millenia/Weapons.htm

So if these guys faced them, and the Seljuk Turks had them, I would presume that the Byzies would have tried to HIRE guys who used them as mercenaries. Since they had the cash, there is no reason to think that they would not have had access to them for their armies.

Anyone find anything that is more on point?

~BW

Those Hungarians sure were nutty warriors The second link credits the Hungarians with developing the Sabre (Hungarian for "cut" or "shrear" being "Sab"). Also of note, the word Hussar - which is equivalent to Light Cavalry, comes from the Hungarian word for 20).

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1st Guy: "Dude, its like a bunch of horse men"
2nd Guy: "Yah, a whole Hussar of them"
1st Guy: "Run - it's the HUSSARS"
2nd Guy: ::::: arrow in his eye...dies::::
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Well - you get the picture.