jacks swagger
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yeah - that's why i like to drool from afar. although i do sometimes wonder what it would be like if rda or someone like that came to my clinic with a cold. i know i'd be professional with him but afterwards i'd probably collapse in a heap. so far my only brush with fame was to treat a UC basketball player for a sore throat (he's in the nba now or at least he was a few years ago) there's not alot of celebrities running around cincinnati y'know.
ACK!
I thought I had stumbled onto a perfectly harmless chat re: Jack's marvelous swagger...and now I have to go and take a cold shower! LOL....gotta say, thanks so much for the traditional kilt picture
Now, where did that hubby go?
I thought I had stumbled onto a perfectly harmless chat re: Jack's marvelous swagger...and now I have to go and take a cold shower! LOL....gotta say, thanks so much for the traditional kilt picture
Now, where did that hubby go?
Rowan
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A history lesson...
The Irish [around 400 BC to 450 AD] had a kind of kilt-like wrap that wasn't a full as a Scots kilt. Kinda like a men's wrap-around sarong. And yes, they went 'commando' under them.
I can see Jack in one of those... either dyed soft wool or more likely doeskin, light pull over shirt and elk hide vest. A golden broach to hold a brat [squaer Irish cloak] pinned at his right shoulder [gotta leave the sword hand free]. Neck adorned in a golden torque and arm cuffs, legs wrapped in wool and feet clad in leather gillies [drawstring lether shoes].
A fine leaf bladed Irish short sword on his right hip and matching dagger on his left. If it's a day for battle, swirles of designs drawn across his face in blue woad. Perhaps he prefers to go shirtless into batttle and the woad extends down across his chest, arms and shoulders.
Ah now, that's a Neill of O'Neill I would follow into battle!
Rowan <O'Callighan and O'Conner by birth
The Irish [around 400 BC to 450 AD] had a kind of kilt-like wrap that wasn't a full as a Scots kilt. Kinda like a men's wrap-around sarong. And yes, they went 'commando' under them.
I can see Jack in one of those... either dyed soft wool or more likely doeskin, light pull over shirt and elk hide vest. A golden broach to hold a brat [squaer Irish cloak] pinned at his right shoulder [gotta leave the sword hand free]. Neck adorned in a golden torque and arm cuffs, legs wrapped in wool and feet clad in leather gillies [drawstring lether shoes].
A fine leaf bladed Irish short sword on his right hip and matching dagger on his left. If it's a day for battle, swirles of designs drawn across his face in blue woad. Perhaps he prefers to go shirtless into batttle and the woad extends down across his chest, arms and shoulders.
Ah now, that's a Neill of O'Neill I would follow into battle!
Rowan <O'Callighan and O'Conner by birth
Rowan
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Irish
Nope. The Sken Duh is a Scottish invention from around the 1200 Century or so. The Irish had no need for whimpy little sock blades.
I'm in a historical research organization and my 'era of interest' is 400BC - 600AD Ireland. "Greywind', my sword, is a reproduction 34" Irish leaf shaped blade with oak grip and bronze pommel and quillion. "Cat's Paw", my dress dagger, is a similar shapped blade only scaled down to 20 inches of double edged steel. Again, oak and bronze.
My working/eating dagger is a sax norse knife single edge design and fits against the small of my back quite well.
My 'persona' [the person I study to be if I had lived then] is a middle age Irishwoman working a weaving/dyeing crafthold willed her by her mother under Brehon law. Being as it's now 605 AD [at least, that's what the Irish Catholic Preasts tell us] it's well before the Synod of Tera where women's rights of inheritance, fighting for self and land, etc were removed by the high king - the Ard Righ.
Jack's weapons would be of strong and solid steel, all ready for cleaving an errant Pict or very lost Roman. And, later on, the Norse.
Besides, charging into battle with nothing but your sword and shield or spears, a "lot" of bare skin [say, in some cases naked] and san body protection save what was painted on with blue word and sporting a 'hard on'
usually scared the opposing forces ... for a least enough time to get the first swings in. And those tactics are historically documented.
Kinda give it a whole new picture.
Hope Jack likes blue.
Nope. The Sken Duh is a Scottish invention from around the 1200 Century or so. The Irish had no need for whimpy little sock blades.
I'm in a historical research organization and my 'era of interest' is 400BC - 600AD Ireland. "Greywind', my sword, is a reproduction 34" Irish leaf shaped blade with oak grip and bronze pommel and quillion. "Cat's Paw", my dress dagger, is a similar shapped blade only scaled down to 20 inches of double edged steel. Again, oak and bronze.
My working/eating dagger is a sax norse knife single edge design and fits against the small of my back quite well.
My 'persona' [the person I study to be if I had lived then] is a middle age Irishwoman working a weaving/dyeing crafthold willed her by her mother under Brehon law. Being as it's now 605 AD [at least, that's what the Irish Catholic Preasts tell us] it's well before the Synod of Tera where women's rights of inheritance, fighting for self and land, etc were removed by the high king - the Ard Righ.
Jack's weapons would be of strong and solid steel, all ready for cleaving an errant Pict or very lost Roman. And, later on, the Norse.
Besides, charging into battle with nothing but your sword and shield or spears, a "lot" of bare skin [say, in some cases naked] and san body protection save what was painted on with blue word and sporting a 'hard on'
usually scared the opposing forces ... for a least enough time to get the first swings in. And those tactics are historically documented.
Kinda give it a whole new picture.
Hope Jack likes blue.
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