Once upon a time, in the middle of nowhere... (Pic heavy!)
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A little off topic …but have you heard about the rout of the knights mounted on stallions during the crusades ? The arab archers rode quick neat footed and very fast Arabian mares, and the knights in shining armour rode huge great warhorse stallions….until they got a sniff of those fast Arabian mares…...
Apparantly that's when gelding became commonplace in Europe
I was told this tale by an Archaeologist who specialised in the horse armour of the period, so I suspect he knew what he was talking about.
M
Apparantly that's when gelding became commonplace in Europe
I was told this tale by an Archaeologist who specialised in the horse armour of the period, so I suspect he knew what he was talking about.
M
No, I haven't heard that story before, but I can picture the scenario 😂
What I do know is that it is suicide to bring a huge horse into battle against a small/medium, swift horse. At least close combat.
Medium small horses are the best, and the head of the knight on the huge horse will hit the ground before the huge horse has even managed to turn it's huge body Sorry for the slightly macabre picture.
The medium horses are the gymnasts of the horse world, and the huge ones are the slow but strong muscle
Not unlike most other species.
Both important, but for different purposes.
An archaeologist that spesialize in horse armour! How cool is that?!
What I do know is that it is suicide to bring a huge horse into battle against a small/medium, swift horse. At least close combat.
Medium small horses are the best, and the head of the knight on the huge horse will hit the ground before the huge horse has even managed to turn it's huge body
Sorry for the slightly macabre picture. The medium horses are the gymnasts of the horse world, and the huge ones are the slow but strong muscle
Not unlike most other species.
Both important, but for different purposes.
An archaeologist that spesialize in horse armour! How cool is that?!
I haven't ridden since I was a child, but listening to him was fascinating
He said that the knights tried their usual full frontal and impressively thunderous approach, but they ended up routed as their stallions took off after the mares, who seeing what was coming after them, ran away even faster
Most archaeologists specialise in something or other. I met one who specialised in snails. Apparantly different snails, their populations, etc., can tell folks a lot about land conditions, what folks were growing, etc., and another fellow who specialised in stone 'slates' roofing…. apparently there is a wee bone in a sheeps foot that is just the very shape for hanging slates on purlins..and archaeologists had been finding huge great quantities of these wee bones in situ for years, not knowing the why or wherefore….thinking it was some weird ritual or other :roll eyes: instead everytime they slaughtered a sheep the wee bones were kept for roofing nails.
The minutae of daily life in the past fills libraries and minds like mine with odd trivia
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He said that the knights tried their usual full frontal and impressively thunderous approach, but they ended up routed as their stallions took off after the mares, who seeing what was coming after them, ran away even faster
Most archaeologists specialise in something or other. I met one who specialised in snails. Apparantly different snails, their populations, etc., can tell folks a lot about land conditions, what folks were growing, etc., and another fellow who specialised in stone 'slates' roofing…. apparently there is a wee bone in a sheeps foot that is just the very shape for hanging slates on purlins..and archaeologists had been finding huge great quantities of these wee bones in situ for years, not knowing the why or wherefore….thinking it was some weird ritual or other :roll eyes: instead everytime they slaughtered a sheep the wee bones were kept for roofing nails.
The minutae of daily life in the past fills libraries
and minds like mine with odd trivia M
Well, despite the European Stallion / Muslim small and agile ones, the Europeans managed to keep the Holy Land and access lands for a couple of centuries, plus kick their butt in Europe proper.....
Arya, it is good to have respect for guns. It will be interrsting which one you buy at the end.
Arya, it is good to have respect for guns. It will be interrsting which one you buy at the end.
