Viking Combat Forum 2024 Event Report

Erratum: The event organizer's name is not Sølberg but Solberg. I apologize.

[swordandshield]

Erratum: The event organizer's name is not Sølberg but Solberg. I apologize.

[SM-nzff]

Nice yeah keep up the good work. Its important to remember like you point out a lot your self is that biomechanics are still the same and we are in a different context but have the same human brain. So much that you've shown on your channel alone is very plausible and indeed worth showing/doing.

[richstone]

Thank you for sharing this video and your time.

[Davlavi]

Amazing thanks for sharing I hope this continues.

[manfredconnor]

Wow! This is incredibly interesting! I am jealous!

[boghoss]

Can't wait until this all becomes mainstream information and we start to see it in the popular media during the next inevitable viking resurgence in the culture. I'd love to see you and your peers hired as historical advisors/choreographers for film and TV!

[billpark]

Excellent presentation. Concise and informative. Well done.

[gorbalsboy]

Very good, I would hope you are getting recognition for being a driving force in this area of research, most of the hema based research seems to be based on interpretation and the most effective techniques for one on one combat rather than massed combat .all the best from sunny Troon 😊

[brucemagee]

Exalant information, thankyou for posting it.

[FiliiMartis]

I like your conjecture on the use of Viking swords, and your approach to support that via the reconstruction of a sparring system. Be it right or wrong, I really like the living history approach. At the same time, I would like to see you, in particular, have a few matches without the grip you propose. Just jam the hand in the hammer grip and try to slash and stab as best as you can. Then compare and contrast.

And if you want to do a more relaxed video, gather (digitally) all the types of Viking/Frankish/Migration sword pommels and guards, get a map of Europe, and based on the density of finds or cultural connections, place each type uniquely on the map (e.g. this is Norwegian, this is Frankish, this is Danish, etc.). I am curious what type can end up being associated with a region, and which are all over the place to allow for that.

[cambo]

7:27 My business meetings would be more interesting if we also had live combat demonstrations.

[sgtNUKEtroop]

a question for you , some Langsaxe reproductions have a pommel that allows for a lanyard , question #1 - are there relics or images (stone carving / tapestry ) that verify a lanyard ring pommel , and question #2 - do you think a short looped lanyard may have been used too keep your hand from slipping forward over the blade in a combat thrust , many thanks, be well, Mikkel

[tatumergo]

The term recreationist should also be used.

[giftzwerg]

Reenactors need to start wearing fencing masks, and be equipeed with save spears, an then they need to experiment and acctually try to do deadly blows and reacreate battlefield drawings and accounts.
The way how the reenactors fight in this video really shows the problem, they fence / fight with the spears ad weighst chest levl, far away for the unprotected head and face to avoid hitting it when in reality that and the shoulders would have been your prime target.
i realy dont understand why reenactors care more about one to one equipment that a one to one reacreation ofthe action, the combat that happened.