Gallowglass Sparth Axe Carnage Tested for
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Thrand in Collaboration with @celtictemplar receives an Irish Gallowglass Donegal Sparth Axe historical replica and test it to see if historical carnage accounts were accurate!
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Thank you to Celtic Templar for sending this axe to be tested.
Ja thanks again axe brother Connor
@@Thrand11 Wasn't joking. I've made two Leine and dyed them with natural dyes. :D
Interesting axe blade position, didn't know people made one pointed upwards. Polearms awesome and devastating as usual.
Ja, thanks
I can't wait to see the bottom tip of that axe hit a helm!
Hell yeah that there is my favorite design of two-handed axe
Ja love it mi'self
Good to see Thrand is back. I hope you get the funds, brother. Look forward to more content.
Ja thank you shield brother
AWESOME!! Instructive, informative & splendidly entertaining! The Hebridean Norse-Gael, Scots Highland & Irish Gallowglass mercenaries were indeed the most feared & fearsome fighting men in Europe for nearly 4 centuries, & in terms of combat skill & versatility that famed warrior breed was unsurpassed. Definitely the Western European equivalent of a Japanese Samurai of the late Medieval & Renaissance eras (1250-1650). Great demonstration!
Thank you shield brother and was pleasure to make this video!
Wicked! Awesome video!
Thanks
Neat they also liked the fletched javelin!
Need to try them
AWESOME VIDEO!!! Thank you. I hope you get your place back.
Thank you and at the moment been evicted from my homestead in a place we are leasing but it's very nice will have an update video soon
Bammm first!!!!! This vid looks sick!
Ja Thanks Shield brother!
Another wonderful and educational video. Skal! 😁
Thakk
I like how it's shaped in such a way that it can also thrust. Taking that end to the teeth abruptly would not be pleasant.
Agreed
Hail Shield brother! Awesome video, i had to go back and rewatch your claymore video from back in the day after this video. Good stuff.
Regaring the funds I and other viewers have donated, don't feel bad. As long as it's used to help you and your family, and helps you produce more content then I will be well happy with how it was spent.
You have my word on the funds being used to protect my family and continue the channel in the best methods I can convince to do so. Just need to figure out the best option to do so before I spend any of the funds. want to make them count and achieve the goal.
It's obvious that is not a formation fighting style, but I also looks like it can be adapted to be used in closer fighting.
Agreed
Nice work, Thrand! Bearded/beaked axes are surprisingly versatile since they can be mounted with the tail pointing up or down. I agree also that axes with lighter heads have their place. If you think about it, axes rival swords in their range of weights, head styles, lengths, etc. Many types for many applications/individual preferences or style emphases.
Take care in this heat, shield brother!
Very true
the predecessors to the halberd, thats totally killer.
Agreed but still stand up on the field in their own right.
Obviously this is right up my alley and I loved the video! One misconception that everyone does is the word sparth. It is a period term but its a Saxon word for a two handed axe and it carries all the way up to Elizabethan times. So in proper English a dane axe would be call a sparth. The Irish would call them a Tuag or Tua Mor. So in your video you are right those were call Sparths at the time but that's what the English called them not the Irish.
Thanks for the information shield brother
To Thegnthrand:
Please read all of my description below:
Weapons used for self defense outside of Ancient Greek warfare. Weapons used in self defense in daily life of Ancient Greece , not Ancient Greek warfare.
Olive war club,
Pelta-shield,
Or
Dory-spear,
Pelts-shield
Both teams will learn from this and I'm predicting that NZ will bounce back and destroy France in the opening game. Can't not take your hat off for the Boks on this one. Hopefully there's no long injuries and well done NZ on defence, think the pressure showed a bit throughout. Unthinkable that Boks are so high up the rankings entering into a WC, usually they hanging at 7th or 9th place, seems they doing something right. Great game, all the best for the WC chaps.
WTF man, I was commenting on S Africa's win over NZ on 2 cents channel 😂
Ja ! ... 👍👍👍
Ja!!!!!
This thing is nutso!
Ja very powerful
Let's go
Ja
We're going to have to get you a léine croich.
I bet a clean tip cut would sheer right through mail.
Possibly we shall try that
To Thegnthrand:
Can a Peltast Wicker shield with rawhide or Oxhide facing protect you against spear thrusts from a iron spearhead from a Dory spear?
I would love to see a video with the axe attacking over a shield.
so if you have the dummy head with a helmet on behind a shield like you are facing someone who is fighting you with a shield.
i would be interested to see what kind of angles you can get on him and maybe actually get some deadly hits in.
Will try mi'best to simulate that for a few test
Glad to hear it !@@Thrand11
To Thegnthrand:
Can a Peltast Wicker shield with rawhide or Oxhide facing protect you against spear thrusts from a iron spearhead from a Dory spear?
It looks like you are more used to an axe that "points" downward rather than "upward." That would definitely mean extra training and practice in order to get the most use out of it. I don't wonder that you would be able to cut through multiple targets even easier if you could get the exact distance down in your muscle memory.
Maybe it's just me, but I really like seeing the weapons go through the water filled milk jugs.
Keep fighting. I'll keep watching. Go with God. Blessings.
We can do some milk jugs and the large grandiose swings threw me off a bit I normally use a more skillful single target defensive approach in Dane axe kinda like Roland Warzecha used it at arms and armor.
You chopped the top off that skull like it was a boiled egg
Lol
I think a couple wraps of shrink wrap would help to make the heads reusable quickly enough
Good idea
To Thegnthrand:
Can a Peltast Wicker shield with rawhide or Oxhide facing protect you against spear thrusts from a iron spearhead from a Dory spear?
Ja! Maximum carnage!
Ja!!!!!
2 weeks looking at all your videos , startig by the firs 14 years ago , and sharing them online ... I would like to help more directly but I am sure you understand that these are difficult times . Sorry for how little is within my reach to cooperate
Thanks for sharing the videos and watching its comfort to know your there!
As they say, "Axe, don't use it if don't mean it".
Lol
To Thegnthrand:
Why did the ancient Greeks during 600bce to 480 bc not use Rectangular shields like the Roman legionary Scutum shield? Why did the hoplites not use large rectangular shields?
Different style of warfare. And also just because they didn't know much about it!
In the Hellenistic era the kings of the successor states organized imitation legion and shield bearers armed with the Celtic scutum, called thyreophoroi.
But the ancients Greeks knew about the ancient Persian Sparabara shields used in the battle of Thermopylae and with Persian mercenaries.
@@taylorfusher2997yes but the Sparabara shield was huge, even compared to a scutum. The Greeks thought of it as a coward's way of fighting.
Well there are multiple reasons to that.
1) The Romans used to use the hoplite shield, but after fighting against the Celts, and the second of Rome, and as well the wars with the Samnites, the Romans started to quickly change their equipment in warfare.
2) The Greeks ended up using a different form of warfare, that was mainly due to the Hellenistic period in the area of the Greek mainland.
To Thegnthrand:
Can a Peltast Wicker shield with rawhide or Oxhide facing protect you against spear thrusts from a iron spearhead from a Dory spear?
15:00 Don't feel bad about keeping people informed on how you're being attacked. Let people know, because it's you vs big cooperation... who has more money wins. So getting us involved means we might have the money to fight back.
Thank you shield brother
How much does the axe head weigh?
Will find out from Neil Burridge give me a bit and try to add specs to description.
The Gallowglass were a mixture of Viking, Pict, and Scots they are not Irish 😂
To Thegnthrand:
Please read all of my description below:
Weapons used for self defense outside of Ancient Greek warfare. Weapons used in self defense in daily life of Ancient Greece , not Ancient Greek warfare.
Olive war club,
Pelta-shield,
Or
Dory-spear,
Pelts-shield
To Thegnthrand:
Can a Peltast Wicker shield with rawhide or Oxhide facing protect you against spear thrusts from a iron spearhead from a Dory spear?
Yes it is possible with those materials depending on how well the shield is made but if poorly made no.
To Thegnthrand:
Please read all of my description below:
Weapons used for self defense outside of Ancient Greek warfare. Weapons used in self defense in daily life of Ancient Greece , not Ancient Greek warfare.
Olive war club,
Pelta-shield,
Or
Dory-spear,
Pelts-shield