[SCA-AE] RE: [Historic-HornAntlerBone] New Robin Hood Series on BBC America

[F. Page Steinhardt]

Are you sure it was a mongolian horse bow? it looks too long, however it 
does bear a more than passing resemblance from the 20 some-odd minutes I 
watched to the turkish composite (horn, sinew, wood) recurve bows that 
were analised in a "Scientific American" magazine article I have kicking 
around here from about 10 years ago.

-Thorpe

caleb at buffnet.net wrote:

> Well, it depends on which Robin Hood legend you wish to follow. The
> Patrick Bergman movie version was very good and fairly "authentic," and
> had nothing to do with Robin coming back from the Crusades. As I recall,
> that movie was done on a shoe-string budget. So was Robin and Marion.

>>>I saw the "Making of..." special on BBC America. It looks like Robin
>>>Hood meets Xena. Robin is using a Mongolian horse bow and is wearing
>>>"Saracen" armour.

>>>
>>>Caleb Reynolds from dark and chilly Danbury, CT
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