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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2009 6:26:15 GMT
I'm looking for a viking helm, gonna go for 14g or better, but style is another aspect, I got a choice of nasal guard or spectacle guard. I've been hearing these rumors that the spectacle guards when a strike happens on the edges of the guard it has a tendancy to divert the weapon point into the eye.
I'm wondering how much validity there is in this hypothesis/claim.
I'm a big fan of the spectacles I feel they more define the early era vikings so I would be more up for this one but not if its more hinderence then help, also hows the comparison in field of vision, with a full chain aventail it looks like it could give protection??
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2009 7:36:52 GMT
The consensus is 16g is more accurate, I have a Nasal helm and see fine, I have tried on the spec helm and your vision is not to bad, I have seen a artist rendition of a Viking with full aventail speckled helm, cant see any part of the face at all, looked scary and very intimidating!!!!
.............SanMarc.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2009 13:57:38 GMT
The Norman helm has a nasal guard and they work fine so im sure the viking would be fine too.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2009 16:08:14 GMT
What're you going to be using it for? THAT is the most pertinent question.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 0:48:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 21:40:38 GMT
Eh, I've always taken claims like eye-seekers with the proverbial grain of salt. Assuming the specs are slightly bulged outward, they should deflect arrows away from the eyes, unless they were going to hit the eye anyway.
You also have to remember, at this time the major style of swordplay was with a cutting weapon...no doubt these spectacles were quite effective at protecting the eye from such a blow, or they wouldn't have been used.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 21:53:18 GMT
Wow, very nice! I wonder how much it weights? I'm not sure my neck is strong enough.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2009 12:41:50 GMT
On most of the spectacle helmets the eye openings are quite big anyway, so you get your typical slightly diverted vision field, but not too bad I'd say. I can give no experienced account on the divert the weapon into the eye part, but quite frankly, I wouldn't give too much about that. Unless your going to have the helmet for life/death duelling it won't make this much of an difference. And since a lot of viking reenactment groups use spectacle guard helmets for their "wargames" I'd suppose the possible danger is not this big. Otherwise the clichee of one-eyed pirates would include the class of pirate known as viking One thing on full chain aventails though, they really tend to get entangled with any kind of hair (head or facial) and on colder occasions you'll get your face pretty wet from the moisture catching on the chain. But yes, they offer some protection and look really intimidating.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2009 1:24:07 GMT
Yeah have to admit they look scarier then any other full face helm, maybe its a euro gene deep down that thinks "oh crap really well armed viking, more bad ass then adverage"
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