Historical reenactments

[NikosMaximilian]

Don't get any cooler than this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...on=Popup&ino=1

I know it's off topic, but since there are a few reenactors here in the forum I thought of sharing this.

[Unintended BM]

My bru and I call it glorified larping. No offense to anyone who does those reenactments. It'd probably be cool. That picture is great.

[Macilrille]

Edited to add, it does not get any uncooler than that.

The one in Shetland is not actually reenacting, it is what we Danes refer to as local theater/theatrics.

What I do is martial arts with Viking weapons, the theatrics fellows can hardly distinguish one end of a sword from another, while we train 3- 16 hours a week year-round. My sword and spear are as familiar to me as my keyboard... we are required to wear handwoven, handsewn, plant-dyed clothes, etc...

Then in summer we travel round living as Vikings at markets/festivals and show what we can do, let the audiences very close in, tasting food, trying gear, seeing us fight... I am n a hurry, so no time for details, but there is a vast difference between that blown-up fellow and articificial theatrics and us I am sorry to say. We are required to wear handwoven, handsewn, plant-dyed clothes, etc... I bet you that fellow own none. His gear is as inauthentic as it can get. I agree, glorified larping, winged helmets... come on...

/me sighs and thinks that these fools should get some real reenactors there, preferably fighters like me. But of course, if authenticity is not what they want...

/me sighs again...

Try searching Youitube for "Moesgaard"


Thanks for the tip anyway, the intension was good.

[ARCHIPPOS]

Ι was really tempted to join these guys at some point ... however their closest training cell is about 150 klm from where i live so ... still i'ld love to give it a try sometime...

[ziegenpeter]

@Macirille: Well its another kind of activity. Comparing what you do to what they do would be like comparing a well researches documentation with 300.

[Macilrille]

ARMA are good for martial arts and much thinking on how best to employ weapons.

Them I like.

[bobbin]

The one in Shetland is not actually reenacting, it is what we Danes refer to as local theater/theatrics.

You hit the nail on the head there, Up Helly Aa is a festival not a historical reenactment by any strech of the imagination. I wouldn't be so disparaging about them though, it's all done with a sense humor and they don't claim to be historically accurate. Besides it wasn't like the Vikings didn't have a taste for the theatrics either

@the OP if you liked the Up Helly Aa pics you should take a look at the Beltane fire festival too (I was going to post a link but given that some people tend to get a bit naked at the thing it would probably be breaking forum rules, just google it). It's a big festival (10000+) that happens in Edinburgh every year based around the old celtic festival, it's probably about as historically accurate as Up Helly Aa but the intention behind it is a bit more serious.

In my opinion they are both just excellent excuses to get drunk.

[Genava]

Celtic re-enactment:
Les Ambiani, re-enactment of the first century BC. 5 archaeologists in the group.
http://www.les-ambiani.com/

Les Leuki, re-enactment of the fourth and third century BC. Franck Mathieu is the director, he works for several museums.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/leuki/

Roman:
Pax Augusta, re-enactment of the Ve Legion from 52 BC to AD 92. The director is François Gilbert, author of several books.
http://www.paxaugusta.net/0Accueil/0cadreaccueil.htm

[Aemilius Paulus]

Ι was really tempted to join these guys at some point ... however their closest training cell is about 150 klm from where i live so ... still i'ld love to give it a try sometime...

Traitor! That is a Mediaeval re-enactment group. And to think I thought well of you...

[Macilrille]

Bobbin, youn think we do not get drunk at Viking Markets? viking Markets are like Valhal mate, we fight all day and drink and/or ravish/seduce women all night.

[Ibrahim]

Ι was really tempted to join these guys at some point ... however their closest training cell is about 150 klm from where i live so ... still i'ld love to give it a try sometime...

that....is cool.

but honestly, I'm more into reenactments of the 18h century/US civil war era, rather than pre gunpowder.

Roman:
Pax Augusta, re-enactment of the Ve Legion from 52 BC to AD 92. The director is François Gilbert, author of several books.
http://www.paxaugusta.net/0Accueil/0cadreaccueil.htm

THE francois Gilbert? that I like. gotta check this place out.

EDIT: or am I expecting Guibert?

[Macilrille]

Melee is more fun Ibrahim, nothing like slicing your enemy with a sword or poking him with a spear. Knowing that he would be dead or seriously injured were it a sharp. More adrenaline rush to it as there is increatsed danger of injury as well :-D

[Ibrahim]

Melee is more fun Ibrahim, nothing like slicing your enemy with a sword or poking him with a spear. Knowing that he would be dead or seriously injured were it a sharp. More adrenaline rush to it as there is increatsed danger of injury as well :-D

maybe, but as I prefer playing with powder, bucause I am a crazy ****.

besides, I grew up on watching movies/reenactments round some isolated fort in the middle of the american wilderness, from the french and indian war era. its why I make plates @ www.kronoskaf.com ; It has a feeling of nostalgia to when I was a kid I guess and I do want to join one of those reenactments from the era-when and if I get a well paying job. bright red coats don't come cheap.

say, are there any reenactments of Sarecens? maybe you can get me join is such exists.

[Macilrille]

Not as far as I know, but in England there is Norman who is a from the Caribbean and black as night, and Quanon who is a Pakistani. Both are very nice fellows, and both wear Saracen clothes to re-enact traders visiting the north for fair slaves and fighting.

[Phalanx300]

PreMarian Romans:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Nefrit3

Viking fights with dull blades(unplanned combat):

https://www.youtube.com/user/skallagrimm
https://www.youtube.com/user/SkjaldborgVikings

Good videos showcasing European Medieval Martial Arts:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealGladiatores

Spartiatikes Mores, Spartan Reenactment:

https://www.youtube.com/user/agesistratos
https://www.youtube.com/user/SpartasMores

Ancient Hoplitikon, Hoplite Reenactment:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ANCIENTHOPLITIKON1st

And if you search you can find much more ;).

[Macilrille]

May I suggest some better Viking links:

www.ulfhednir.dk (our sister group from Copenhagen)
http://www.ask-viking.dk/ (our new site under construction still)
www.ask-vikingekampgruppe.dk (our old site, pics and a film)
http://schildwall.reenactment-combat.de/
http://www.jomsvikings.com/jomsborg.htm (a bit too hierarchial and formal in their structure but nice to outsiders)
http://www.elvegrimarne.se/

On youtube search for (Moesgaard 200x-insert4-9), Huscarl, Jomsborg, HEMA