A medieval gorytos?

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A medieval gorytos?

Post by ginni » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:35 pm

Engraving is representing a moldavian archer, about 1350, I dont know when was made.

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The bow quiver seems and arrow quiver seems to be same piece, but is not very clear in the image.
The bow is very interesting, it seems to have only a slight touch between siyah and string and have no recurved ears, that sugesting not a turkish type.
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Post by Bede » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:32 pm

Ginni,
This looks like a nineteenth century fantasy engraving. There were many popular historical works made in Western Europe with little or no research. I am sure that the genre was popular everywhere.

What usually happened was that a historical tradition was re-interpreted using Classical and Gothic motifs. It is somewhat like what happened with the popular nineteenth century ideas about the Vikings and other "barbarians".
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