The president is Niklas Mårdby of Gothenburg Historical Fencing School with Carl Ryrberg of Örebro Association for Historical Fencing as Vice President. More details to follow.

After 12 years in preparation several French associations and clubs have gathered and managed to create a structure for a French HEMA federation. The site of the Fédération Française des Arts Martiaux Historiques Européens (FFAMHE) can be found here. http://www.ffamhe.fr/ … Continue reading →

I just received some club details for a new Norwegian HEMA club located in Oslo. They are called Oslo KDF and can be reached through oslokdf@gmail.com or http://www.communitywalk.com

Finally, we have been given access to Bonaventura Pistofilo’s treatise on pike, halberd and arquebusier, entitled “Oplomachia”. You can download it here.

Join our Facebook group which we initiated to encourage the publisher to make a second print of the out-of-stock Forgeng-translation of Joachim Meyer’s 1570 manual!

The Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Krakow, Poland, has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute HEMA material such as their Gladiatoria manuscript MS Germ.Quart.16

All dead links have been removed from the equipment list and new items have been added

This time a review of Pavel Moc’s Lichtenauer steel Longsword

This time a review of the Knightshop Synthetic Longsword – Pro-Line Extreme

The Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek in Dresden has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute HEMA material such as their Paul Hektor Mair manuscript C.93

The University library of Lund has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute Joachim Meyer’s 1560 manuscript, and as a result it is back online again.

The Österreichische Nationalbibliothek has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute Mair’s Vienna manuscript, Cod.Cod. 10825/10826, and as a result it is back online again.

Long overdue, work is finally being done to open up a treatise-database with more info on the authors, interpretors, translators etc. Appologies for taking so long to get it done.

The Secret Fechtbuch of the Little Fuggers

Tyrone Artur Budzin has recently published his document with a translation of the Talhoffer Gotha Codex from 1443. He has also sent updates to his old documents on Pascha and Petter which are now available in the manuscripts section

Neyffer’s book on campus life in Wurttemberg of 1589.

Reviews of sparring swords and seven new articles

An introduction to a review series of a whole lot of sparring swords has been added to the review section.

“Deutsche Fechtkunst der 16 Jahrhundert” by Prof. Dr. Panconcelli Calzia has been added.

Due to internal conflicts LUTEL has a new url to their web site.

Updates to the site will be published there so all friends instantly are briefed. Follow the link and add Hroarr as a friend.

“De Arte Ahtletica” has been added.

have been added to the Organisations & Clubs page.

“Arte Athletica” from 1542 has been added to the manuscript section.

Four pdf’s with manuscripts related to Joerg Wilhalm have been uploaded. Also pdf’s of Lekuchner Cgm 582, Paulus Kal Cgm 1507 and the anonymous Codex 1.6.2.4 have been uploaded to the manuscript section.

The manuscript section now contains the Talhofer manuscript “Gothaer Codex” of 1443

The list have been updated with a bunch of upcoming, exciting HEMA events.