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Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Virilis - 06-12-2007
Quote:I think it was gennerally as a show of bravery, in the respect that "I don't need armour, i'll chop your head off anyway" or that sort of thing.Oh yes! The silliest explanation to the question of fighting naked is that ...in this way the fabric of the dirty clothes don`t penetrate into the possible wounds thus reducing the risk of inflammation! RUHAHHAH!
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Et tu brute - 06-12-2007
:lol:
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - hephestus - 06-12-2007
Salvete,
I believe that reenactor "naked" are "Gaesato" and fought naked armed only with sword , sospensoria chain and shield.I believe also that they were covered of chalk. That the "Gaesum" or "Soliferrum" derived from their name.
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Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - FAVENTIANVS - 06-12-2007
They could have also said: -"Look at the size of my balls!!"-
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Sachiko - 06-13-2007
I see...
Were they that brave in winter as well? I hear some things tend to shrink in the cold
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Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Et tu brute - 06-13-2007
Lol, I presume so, I suppose the "heat of battle" would have kept them warm
@ Vincenzo: I've also heard of them being called Gaesati.
Gaesatae - Paullus Scipio - 06-20-2007
(Polybius' description of the Battle of Telamon, 225BC)
"The Insubres and the Boil wore their trousers and light cloaks, but the Gaesatae had discarded their garments owing to their proud confidence in themselves... At first the battle was confined to the hill... In this action Galas the Consul fell in the melee fighting with desperate courage, and his head was brought to the Celtic kings... All [the naked Gaesatae] in the leading companies [were] richly adorned with gold torcs and armlets. The sight of them indeed dismayed the Romans, but at the same time the prospect of winning such spoils made them twice as keen for the fight... [Later in the battle,] reduced to the utmost distress... some of [the Gaesatae] in their impotent rage, rushed wildly on the enemy and sacrificed their lives, while others, retreating step by step on the ranks of their comrades, threw them into disorder by their display of faint- heartedness."
Gaesatae lit."spearmen" derive their name from the gaelic word for spear - gae
They seem to have been some sort of warrior guild or society, outside the normal tribal hierarchy, and are sometimes described as 'mercenaries'.
They came across the Alps to aid their fellow celts in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy) against the Romans, and fought with the Boii and Insubres tribes who fought in trousers, bare chested, whilst the Gaesatae stripped naked, either out of bravado on a hot day, or for religio-magical reasons - 'purity/nakedness' perhaps invoking divine protection.
They suffered badly in the defeat, and disappear from history.
Whilst interesting, they are hardly typical of Celtic warriors!
dangle bits - arrowmaker - 06-22-2007
I would think a well placed studded Roman boot would do the job
hock: Arrowmaker
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Et tu brute - 06-22-2007
*winces*
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Memmia - 06-22-2007
I hope they didn't run into any nettles, it'd take a lot of dock leaves to take the sting away
hock:
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Memmia - 06-22-2007
P.S. Does anyone know the significance of covering themselves with chalk ? Was it just religious/ ceremonial or to stop heat exhaustion/ sunstroke due to them being naked ?
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Marcus Hortensius Castus - 06-28-2007
Quote:P.S. Does anyone know the significance of covering themselves with chalk ? Was it just religious/ ceremonial or to stop heat exhaustion/ sunstroke due to them being naked ?
I don't have any clue about the things you mentioned, but it would be possible that, even if not intended, the chalk would have absorbed blood from the (probably numerous) cuts and maybe even helped clot the blood faster, hence allowing them to continue fighting with sustained wounds.
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Jeroen Pelgrom - 06-29-2007
probably to look more " scary" or something like that.
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - arrowmaker - 06-29-2007
Quote:probably to look more " scary" or something like that.How can you take a man serious with his dangley bits :roll: :roll: showing
hock: :twisted: hock: Fred ( arrowmaker)
Re: Show here your Celtic warrior impression - Publius Aelius Lucius - 07-13-2007
some pics from the keltenfest schwarzenbach
members.kabsi.at/scarlett/Schwarzenbach/
with romans from the legXIII