Questions about a helmet dealer!

[Virilis]

Salve RAT!

I have one conical varangian style helmet (ca. 800-1100 A.D.) with mail aventail from www.die-ritterschmiede.de which I am very pleased with. It is very well made and the quality/price relation must be the best I have seen anywhere so far. Also the service was excellent. Unfortunately they don`t have a line of roman helmets.

They offer also several spangenhelm-germanic- style helmets with nasal-guards. I am particularly interested in their "spangenhelm um 700". Can anyone give opinions about those helmets, if they have any worth in making a late roman/byzantine impression, ca 400-800?

Ps. I just noticed that my inquiry should have been in a differend thread (re-enactment-reconstruction?), sorry!

Best regards, Virilis Finlandicus, Jyrki Halme

[Antonius Congianocus]

Hello,

Here is a site that details the construction of a late Roman Biz Helm

http://www.geocities.com/egfroth1/ConcentricHelm.html

Someone who is a better metal worker will be able to tell you if you could modify the helmets or not.

As for me, I'm still waiting for the linen and leather I ordered, so I can construct my Subarmilis.

Antonius