The Viking way - Making Arrows

Footage from The Viking way 2016
www.handsonhistory.no
www.trondheimvikinglag.no
www.thevikingway.no

[@jamesbottema3363]

I accidentally found this, and I'm happy. Through adoption, my name is a Dutch name, but My blood is Norwegian. The production value of these videos are great! I'm not a fan of listening to people talk, whom only talk to hear themselves talk.😂 This is brass tacks, no-nonsense, but still very entertaining and educational. I'm looking forward to viewing all the videos on this channel sooner than later.

[@bashkillszombies]

Your first name is not Dutch. Your surname is not Dutch. Neither of those names are Dutch, nor Norwegian. Sorry bro. You got lied to.

[@GnarledStaff]

Loving the music!

[@knyghtmordhaus9170]

The editing in this video is amazing. Actually the editing in all of your videos are amazing.

[@preludedudesi5208]

Very cool! Looks like an amazing place

[@Daylon91]

I'd like to see the process of shaping the arrow out of the logs

[@BerserkerGang2019]

really nice. i making a viking bow and arrow on my channel and this video gives me some inspiration. happy new year.

[@bashkillszombies]

Socketed arrows? Pretty sure they used tanged arrows.

[@marcisozols2800]

This is going to confuse the shit out of historians in the future

[@wyrdwildman1689]

Singing Duckling lol they will require better carbon dating

[@garychynne1377]

THANK YOU. ENJOYED. GARE

[@MITOSYLEYENDASCHUSO]

GARYYYYYYY HELLOOOO

[@thomasjodavies6718]

You guys should upload this to Spotify

[@bashkillszombies]

LOL

[@zenilton1858]

Mandou bem

[@cherokeesfinestindian]

Were the arrows actually made from unseasoned pine? And did they stay straight?

[@ReichenbachEsq]

CHEROKEE'S FINEST INDIAN I doubt it. Not very uniform.

[@astorniit7524]

Pine has been a staple arrow wood in many eras and cultures and I am quite sure I have heard of viking arrows made from pine. I know the Nydam arrows from the 5th century were made from it.. As far as wether or not it was seasoned is hard to tell. There is no evidence to suggest vikings worked wood in any way but green, but on the other hand it is quite hard to tell if a piece of wood that has been laying in the ground for a millenia was seasoned! You can make arrows out of green wood though. There is a risk the will bend a bit as they dry, but as an improvised weapon, for example when travelling, it works great! Also, when the shafts are carved into shape they dry a lot quicker than if they were seasoned as logs. So it is not uncommon to at least partially make the shafts into shape before drying. You can also store several arrows bundled together and then tightly bind them with string when not in use. That way they will be supported by each other and be encouraged not to bend as they dry. Take note I am not an educated expert or historian. Just a novice arrowmaker and a major history nerd

[@nope1083]

It would be funny if they carved up an entire tree for one arrow, as a joke

[@wyrdwildman1689]

That Guy...

[@bashkillszombies]

Cool joke bro.

[@wms72]

That's what Curly would do. Or Popeye.

[@guylewis7418]

What type of bow did the Vikings use?

[@astorniit7524]

That is hard to tell as we don't have a lot of complete bows left from the norse people. There are a few finds from Haithabu in northern germany though. There's one complete yew bow for example. Yew is an excellent bow wood and from what few finds we have seems to have been appreciated by the vikings. The haithabu bow is made as a self longbow. The cross section is round and it has simple side nocks. There is a theory that the famous english longbow was actually scandinavian in origin. That they got the idea from the welsh, who got it from the viking raiders/settlers. Another theory suggests that at least some vikings used composite bows, like the nomads of asia. They had many trade connections to the east, so whilst we don't have any finds of it, they may have used this style of bow.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

@@astorniit7524 If vikings used composite bows they were propably finnougric two wood composite bows and not like asiatic horn composits tho very similar in appearance.

[@astorniit7524]

@@ReasonAboveEverything I agree! Perhaps I should have made a distinction between eastern slavic/asiatic vs eastern finno-ugric

[@zachp7603]

why do you live in tents?

[@peder6909]

Why do you live in a House?

[@SeadartVSG]

Vikings making glue-on English bodkin arrow heads?

[@screamsofsuicide6669]

the glue is historical and arrowheads like this have been found around Viking age hunting grounds around the melting glaciers

[@MrWolfe-pf8pm]

Pine resin would be one of the most common "glues" at that age, still one of my favorites to use to this day

[@astorniit7524]

I'd say that looks closer to a leaf arrowhead than a bodkin, but I guess that's debatable. As far as glue goes that is a quite traditional method for attaching socketed arrowheads. You could rivet it, but that makes it very difficult to reuse the head if the shaft breaks. The glue is just to hold it in place until you shoot it or when pulling it out of something. In the air and during impact all the force of the shaft is directed into the arrowhead and whatever it hits offers resistance, so it actually gets squeezed in tighter. whatever

[@mr.somebody1493]

Why is there bagpipe music?.....did the vikings invent the bagpipe?

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Not even sure it's a bagpipe. I have no clue what kind of instrument this is.

[@NicholasKonradsen]

@Philip Kuzin they are rauschpfeife , hide drums, norsk sekkepipe, hurdy gurdy, and bouzouki

[@astorniit7524]

They didn't invent the bagpipe, but they had it. The bagpipe wasn't always scottish. I believe it actually originated on mainland Europe in antiquity and then spread north. The romans played them, the celts played them and so on so forth. The scandinavians still have their own traditional takes on the instrument that differ from the most famous scottish one.

[@kanutastar]

why does the instrument in this song sound more like a otamatone

[@hugoakerlund5114]

well those are not viking arrowheads

[@rgenherehjartablo1742]

Scandinavian Huntsman pretty close...

[@hugoakerlund5114]

SavageHjerte - ᚱᚨᚷᚾᚨᚱ no

[@NEVAR1139]

+Scandinavian-Huntsman is correct. Arrowheads in that period where probably tanged arrowhead, as opposed to the shaft going into the head.

[@astorniit7524]

Actually they are. The leaf shaped design was very common during this time, especially as a hunting broadhead. It was used by everyone from Anglo-Saxons, to continentals to Scandinavians. Though tanged was probably more common we know they used socketed arrowheads as well. So I'd say this is just as accurate as could be expected given the reasonably small amount of evidence we have for their arrowmaking. Also, the vikings weren't an arrowmaking industry. There is no one true viking arrowhead. Every area, every smith, had his own variation of arrowheads, so to say that this is inaccurate is in itself inaccurate since he follows the broad design of the day as he has been taught, just like any smith of the age would have.