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Thorsteinn

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Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« on: 2012-01-28, 04:12:38 »
Do you have a fight song or battle hymn? it's a big tradition of the human race & all fiction right? o what's yours?

Even dead assassins have them:


And Vikings can share with Arabs:
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #1 on: 2012-01-28, 18:12:34 »
At the Azincourt event in France, the Azincourt Carol gets recited alot in the English camp  ;)
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #2 on: 2012-01-31, 17:09:55 »
This one does it for me:




(EDIT: Fixed youtube link. -Ed)
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #3 on: 2012-01-31, 19:30:30 »
High energy: One of A Kind


Medieval: Panda (The Other White Meat) - by MDRF's "The Rogues"


Asian: Red Warrior, from The Last Samurai - especially about 1 min in
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #4 on: 2012-02-02, 15:15:54 »
Oh yea, the Last Samurai soundtrack had some great ones.
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #5 on: 2012-02-04, 19:59:08 »
Not so much as a song for me, it's more of an improvised mantra going through my head if I'm taking the Vor: Schielhau, Thrust, Zwerchhau,  Zornhau OR Krumphau, Schielhau, Thrust  ;)
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #6 on: 2012-02-05, 14:46:54 »
Quote from: Sir Brian on 2012-02-04, 19:59:08
Not so much as a song for me, it's more of an improvised mantra going through my head if I'm taking the Vor: Schielhau, Thrust, Zwerchhau,  Zornhau OR Krumphau, Schielhau, Thrust  ;)

Ho, ha-ha! Guard, Turn, Parry, dodge, spin, hah! thrust,   *whack*  ... *Straighten beak* :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS5R6ztNTqc#t=1m18s

(click the link, it won't embed)
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #7 on: 2012-02-05, 16:20:25 »
Yes pretty much like that!

err except I don't spit as much when I speak!  :D
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #8 on: 2012-02-05, 20:42:34 »
Quote from: Sir Edward on 2012-02-05, 14:46:54
Quote from: Sir Brian on 2012-02-04, 19:59:08
Not so much as a song for me, it's more of an improvised mantra going through my head if I'm taking the Vor: Schielhau, Thrust, Zwerchhau,  Zornhau OR Krumphau, Schielhau, Thrust  ;)

Ho, ha-ha! Guard, Turn, Parry, dodge, spin, hah! thrust,   *whack*  ... *Straighten beak* :)

That's *exactly* what I thought when I read Sir Brian's post but I couldn't find the video and thought no one would get the reference. Well done!
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Re: Do you have a fight song/ battle hymn?
« Reply #9 on: 2012-02-07, 02:33:16 »
My head went right to Robin Hood:Men In Tights_

"Thrust. Thrust. Parry. Parry. Good!"
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