Wood Metal Viking
Wood Metal Viking
Am I a nerd?
I am a boy and I am 14 years old.I love politics and history.I hate rap and maths.I love metal(true metal),especially folk/viking and black.I wear a Thors hammer pendant and pagan pentacles.I enjoy archery(I have a reall wooden bow) and I am an equestrian.I dont have friends and I spend my time alone.I LOVE wandering the woods,and I love nature.My hair was long,but I had to cut it,because of the narrow minded people around me.Am I a nerd?
I am also very serious and very quiet
I HATE MODERN COMPOSITE BOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ANCIENT VIKINGS WERENT STUPID LITTLE GIRLS WITH COMPOSITE BOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A nerd? No. A slightly ignorant fool? Yes.
Fact is, composite bows are far more effective, size for size, than any self-longbow or self-flatbow (made of ONE type of material, in one piece). Look at the Turkish bows, for example, or the Mongol bows: Small, compact design, yet capable of launching an arrow with enough force to penetrate armour at distances of over 100 yards. Show me a “Viking bow” of the same size that could do that – and by “size”, I am not referring to draw weight.
If a Viking could get one, he would have used a composite bow. I’m a History buff, too, and I’ve been at it for the past 30+ years. By the way, any bow capable of launching an arrow is a “real” bow, no matter what kind of bow it is.
Now, you say that you wear Pagan pentacles and a Thor’s Hammer – yet those “narrow-minded people” only made you cut your hair? I don’t buy it. If they are “narrow-minded” they would not let you wear the pentacle or the Thor’s Hammer… By the way, a pentacle is just a pentacle – it is not just a “Pagan thing”.
Politics is great, and knowing how it works helps to make a person aware of what is really going on in the world. Keep at it – knowing your rights makes it harder for others to take those rights away.
You ride horses. That’s great! I wish I had the time, the money and the horse…..
You enjoy being in the woods and spending time with Nature. That’s also great! Without Nature, we would all be dead. Without trees, log homes would be scarce, campfires would be dull and paper would be much more expensive. Also, where would a person hang that tire-swing?
You don’t have any friends….. Now that, son, is not good at all. Without friends, you are nothing, not even a “nerd”. Do not shut yourself off from the world just because SOME people don’t agree with you.
And if you REALLY want to learn about REAL Vikings, there is a group called the Society for Creative Anachronisms, Inc. – http://sca.org – you should check out. Vikings did not wear horned helmets, except for Ceremonial Rituals (if even then); most Vikings were farmers; etc.
And just so you know: a COMPOSITE bow is made of more than one material, to give it more power – and they were always a laminate type of bow, most always recurve in design. A COMPOUND bow has wheels – and is totally modern in design. COMPOSITE bows have been around for at least 2000 years, and can be as simple as a sinew-backed bow or as complex as a Mongol bow – but the “ancient” designs did not work at all well in wet regions such as Northern Scandinavia, which is why the Vikings used one-piece self-bows.