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Sounds interesting slingbadger - but then again you go swimming in freezing cold water, so you're clearly not sane :-) Why an irishman ? Okay I understand that most americans - for some unknown reason - claim to be irish rather than american. But if you've got a choice........... :-) And were the irish known for slingers ? That I hadn't heard, can't recall any of the irish legends being big on slings. After all this was long before they had potatoes to sling :-) And of course it begs the question - what did the irish peasant eat before potatoes ? (you can't tell I'm english can you ? lmao)
Actually on a more general and philosophical note (not so much p*ss taking of the irish). I do find it interesting how involved americans tend to get in renfaires and other anachronistic activities that are primarily europaen based.
When you look at the history of the americas before the europaens bought disease and devastation to it, the level of culture, science and civilisation was much higher and on a par with the middle east and egypt. When you're living on a continent whose people produced the inca temples and machu pichu, not to mention the lost tribes of plains indians (okay they didn't build or write, but what little is known is damn interesting all the same) - why would you choose to be a comparatively barbaric europaen from the same period ? The sling was definitely the primary projectile weapon of the south and central american indians - I suppose due mostly to climate, bows were pretty much limited to the drier north.
So does the sca boast a mayan or aztec section at all ?
I suppose my own personal objection to reenactment would simply be that I would hate to be limited to just one period of history. I would prefer to mix and match :-) Let's face it what's the point of having all this history if you can't pick the best bits from the best periods and mix them up into one super historical period :-) Roman armies with japanese steel, lightweight chainmail, english long bows, south american slingers and big axes would be a start :-)
So anybody else up for forming the Alternative SCA (Soceity for Chaotic Anachronism) ? :-)
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