Hastings 1066 Normans Strelets

[MABO]

Here are the first masters for the new Strelets set of the famous battle:

I like them!

http://www.strelets-r.com/Pages/Set.aspx?SetID=267&M=M

[Bluefalchion]

Those look fantastic

[vellek]

Nice. Strelets have really come a long way with their sculpting.

[MABO]

Yes, indeed!

[dykio]

The do look awesome. Does anybody know if there lawrenceof arabia set is already done?

[Paul]

More excellent News.
The last one..what is that he´s Holding? A Club obviously but The view from behind Looks like a Teddy bear sitting on a stick


I hope they come up with some new nag sculpts as well.

[MABO]

nag ?

[Beano Boy]

Yes Jan ,a heavy wooden club that's for sure. Well fit for head bashing busting,and a beast of a weapon.
There was a bishop that used one if i remember correctly that fought for Williams cause,and his own too, for there was loot and land a plenty promised,but he made a holy vow not to use the sword during the up and coming noisy scrap. He might have been related to the Duke too perhaps a Brother?
The figures look very good,and like Paul hopefully mentioned new Nags would be good. BB

[Bluefalchion]

nag is slang for horse

[Susofrick]

Looks very promising, but I don't think the Saxons liked them that much.

[steve_pickstock]

The fact that the bishop vowed not to use a sword translated through to the original version of Dungeons & Dragons. Because of that in some fantasy worlds cleric types are limited to clubs and not swords. It's funny how a single fact can get translated like that.

[Paul]

nag ?

Old english (late medieval) from the Dutch Neg or negge = small horse

There was a bishop that used one if i remember correctly that fought for Williams cause,and his own too, for there was loot and land a plenty promised,but he made a holy vow not to use the sword during the up and coming noisy scrap.

Odo, Earl of Kent, Bishop of Bayeux, half-brother of William.
Clubs were common weapons, William used one at hastings. That both both Odo's and William's use one suggests that Clubs may have been a mark of authority, similar to the vine-branch cudgel used by the ancient Romans.

That his clerical Status forbids him or he said that he didn´t want to draw blood by using a sword is a Myth. Nowhere is he qouted as saying so, he was in fact better known as a fighter and was one of Williams noted companions.
The myth of clerics not Spilling blood Comes from 19th century (Curiosities Of Literature, Volume 1: Isaac Disraeli..yep the father of Benjamin Disraeli) Retro fitting of historical Facts, ie taking the saying from the Inquisition..Ecclesia non novit sanguinem (The church knows not blood) where they handed over thier victims to secular torturers and adding it to the rest of the medieval clergy.

The one with a mitre is Holding a ..er?..sword

Picture from Einhard's 9th-century biography of Charlemagne.

Tilpin, Archbishop of Reims from 748-794, is described as using a Club, a Lance (at the battle at Roncesvalles pass 778 ) or a sword at various Points, not forgetting the various clerical brotherhoods, Teutonic, Livonians etc..and..
One of the illustrations from the 13th Cent Fechtbuch, shows a fighter with shaved head (tonsure) common to Medieval clergy at the time..



Your honour..I rest my case

The bod with the Club would do as both Odo or William
Odo (middle with Club)

William (middle raising helmet)

The one with a cross?? Replace with Club?

[Paul]

strange the way that on the pic from biography of Charlemagne, it Looks like the Smiley has bounced off the tip of the Lance..or?

[Paul]

...as if I had planned it that way.....

[Paul]

...as if I had planned it that way.....

...and who´se to say I didn´t ?

[Paul]

...and who´se to say I didn´t ?

Me I suppose

[Ian Bruce]

I think the figure with the club is supposed to be William himself. He is also lifting his Spangenhelm to expose his face, something that the Conqueror is said to have done to prove he was still in the fight when rumours that he had been killed on Senlac Ridge began to sweep through his forces.

[MABO]

Thanks for teaching me "nag".

[Paul]

Nag also means to complain..ie; "he´s always nagging about ..." or "she´s a nag"..the same here..Naggen but that means more annoying

[Paul]

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