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This is a second shot of me in one of my viking hard kits.

Here is the first one:

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I'm portraying a central swedish viking with eastern estonian-russian trading connections.
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*ga-ren Apr 5, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
That is a great costume.
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*VendelRus May 12, 2013
Thank you very much!
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~ignispotensis Mar 8, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Looks great! But what about bow? Vikings didn't use compound bows. Unless they stole it from near east:>
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*VendelRus Mar 8, 2013
Thanks!

The bow and quiver is based on Magyar finds with counterparts from Birka in Sweden. There are several finds of this kind from Birka including thumb rings. There is also evidence of some kind of local manufacturing. It seems that the residents of Birka tried to copy the Magyar (Hungarian) bows, the result was quite crude.
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~ignispotensis Mar 9, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Ow! That is great information for me! I didn't know that the vikings could make curved bows! Tnx:) However this equipment is reliable enough because vikings often used stolen things:)
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*VendelRus Mar 10, 2013
To be fair, "vikings" in general did not use this type of bow. Some vikings (or even mercenaries from the east) on the island of Birka used magyar bows. I would still say that this bow is very atypical for Scandinavia during the viking age. =)
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~ignispotensis Mar 10, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
You should come to vikings festiwal in Wolin (Poland) once if u haven't been yet:)
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*VendelRus Mar 10, 2013
I would love to. We have been talking about going there for years but it has just never happened. We have lots of kids in your group so it takes quite a lot of planning =)
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~ignispotensis Mar 10, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
I understand you. I have very close to Wolin but i was there only one time:)
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*VendelRus Mar 17, 2013
I don't mid the trip. It would be cool sailing there with the ship =)
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