germanic spangenhelm henning Festival mantels en capes It reaches to the knee

It reaches to the knee

This gorget is made after late medieval / Renaissance originals

This belt is a replica based on fragments of an original found in the Viking town of Birka

to which the decorative buckle is fastened

This recurve bow is made of several layers of glass fibre and laminated wood

germanic spangenhelm henning Festival mantels en capes It reaches to the kneeThis helmet is made after Germanic originals that were worn all over Europe at the time of the great Migrations. Germanic tribes like the Goths, Franks, Alamans and Frisians wore helmets like this one. The cheek flaps were a legacy of the Roman galea helmets and earlier cavalry helmets that the Germanic Auxiliae wore in Roman service.