Please enjoy this short story prequel to the new Heirs of Anarwyn series. The Ruin of Goldereth J.W. Elliot Copywrite ©2022 ALYS SHIVERED AT the eerie cry that drifted in through her open window. Her room was so…
Mounted Archery Last time we discussed the age of the great warbow. As important as the warbow was to late medieval warfare in Western Europe, the bow really achieved its most brilliant deployment as a military technology among the horseback…
Heavy warbows came into their own in western Europe when they began to be deployed in mass volleys, the so-called “arrow storm,” by the Normans. The primary purpose of the arrow storm was to disrupt, weaken, and dishearten an advancing…
As I noted in my last post on archery tactics, the bow was long used as a weapon of ambush. In the English-speaking world, the yew longbow has become synonymous with noble outlaws, such as Robin Hood, who defied…
Hi all, I recently came across a translation of a Latin inscription about a Syrian soldier in the Batavian legion of the Roman army named Soranus. He died in 118 AD and left a remarkable epitaph. Here it is: “I…