Hungary & the Magyars
The Hungarian horseback-archery revival and the Magyar composite bow. · 5 articles
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Magyar Traditional Archery
A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF HUNGARIAN ARCHERY, PART I
by Chris Szabó
Hungarian Archery - Revival of a long lost tradition by Csikos Balint
Graphical reconstruction of the Niya Bow by Stephen Selby
reconstruction of the Niya Bow : Further Observations by Bede Dwyer
Video of Magyar Traditional Foot and Horseback Archery Technique by Thomas Hortsin. (Windows Media Player required)
Magyar Archery (1)
A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF HUNGARIAN ARCHERY, PART I by Chris Szabó [Christopher Andrew Szabó, a second-generation Hungarian born in London, has had a lifelong fascination with Old Magya…
Niya Bow : Elaboration by Bede Dwyer
Reconstruction of the Niya Bow Bede Dwyer's Observations. © Bede Dwyer, 2000 Stephen Selby recommended the article in Wenwu , Vol. 1, 2000 on an excavation of a tomb at Niya in Xinjiang to m…
Niya Bow Reconstruction
Reconstruction of the Niya Bow Stephen Selby In June 1999, I had the opportunity to visit an exhibition of 'Treasures of the Silk Route' at the Revolutionary Museum in Beijing, China. The ex…
Hungarian Traditional Archery
The Magyar Bow In the 1920s a lot of 10th century graves were found. Among the stirrups, sabres and other things, archeologists found long and narrow bone plates. Nobody knew what they were …
Hungarian Traditional Archery
Hungarian Archery - Revival of a long lost tradition © Csikos Balint "A sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine!" (Modena, 924 A.D.) - in a rough translation: "Lord, save us from the arrows of…