Thought the best thing to do as a new member of this forum would be to tell a little about myself.
As you might have guessed my name is Kenneth, I'm currently 28 and from Vanløse, Copenhagen, Denmark and work as a smith's apprentice, with 3 years to go till my education is done.
Although I'm a great big history nerd I'm fairly new to the medieval period, my main interest having been the second world war and Japanese warfare, warrior culture and arms and armour during the sengoku jidai.
Other than history I also spend quite a bit of time on airsoft, roleplaying (both PnP and LARP), tabletop wargames and PC gaming.
I'm greatly interested in armour, always had a great love and admiration for it which originally was the main thing drawing me to studying Japanese arms and armour.
For many years I've wanted to craft armour myself, have spent alot of time on the armour archive and thinking to myself "one day"...and now, this coming weekend, if all goes well, I'll be signing a contract to rent a hobby workshop that will be all mine to start making that dream come true.
The world of chivalry and knights are fairly new to me, having focused heavily on the other two historical periods.
Recently though I felt like I needed a bit of a change, I needed something new and fresh for me to study and seeing as I'm a bit of an anglophile I thought England in the 14th century would be a good place to start.
I have a dream of one day having at least one English warrior "outfit" on display from the 11th century till the 21st, and currently have an almost complete 2005-2010 SAS Task Force Black loadout (for airsoft) which is 95% original, reelsteel parts and also about 70% completed on a WW2 D-day British para kit.
I'll mainly be using my future kit for LARP'ing, there are sadly no living history groups around here doing the periods I'm interested in (alot of it is focused on the viking age, for obvious reasons) and no SCA groups whatsoever.
Luckily, the LARP community and standard around here is very good, so it's not much of a loss, even though you do get some weird "looks" when you mention LARP on armouring forums etc.
Although the chivalric code have never been something I've looked closely at before, I've recently found it compelling...mainly because I recognize some parts of myself in it and the idea of bringing that back to life is a thrilling thought and to try and live by it seems to me a goal worth aiming for.
I know it's quite a longer introduction but thought I would try and get as much info about myself on there for a proper presentation.
I may for a time sit fairly silently on the sidelines, reading up and expanding my knowledge and hopefully I'll have something worth sharing in the near future.
I'm looking forward to participating and being a part of this forum.
