Stav - 1997

Ronayne Marten Loderus talks about this Nordic martial art. Footage of Stav master Ivar Hafskjold.

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Sports

Tags:

• martial
• arts
• norse
• stav
• Loderus
• Ivar
• Hafskjold

[vnw5cgnw3mx5hg]

Nice, didn`t know this existed!

[NewZealfighter]

It is nice to learn new stuff

[TheCaneArtist]

I would like to find out where to get the training videos.

[Stridhhrafn]

to continue... there are several arts forms that have survived in Scandinavian thanks to remote isolation. Skáldarskapur, Drengs-skapur, etc. With this noted it is still worthy to note the attempt to create such a form. I am proud man of Danish descent. I know my heritage quite well and can easily see where fact and fiction diverge in any martial tradition. The fact that Stav takes inspiration from our culture is the only worthy note that I can make. Best of luck to your growth, but be honest.

[Stridhhrafn]

As far as Scandinavian "martial arts" is concerned the only one that I have found of any note of actual history would be Glímu also called Fang. I highly highly doubt this supposed martial arts claimed history. Based on the fact that one Stavs apparent late emergence. Also Runic Posture didn't really appear until the Advent of the Guido Von List Society in the early 20th century. And even the names and forms of the Long Stave Variant make it apparent. Any one that has a solid understanding of...

[BostonA13]

Nice thor pendant. View my vid. My ancestry is Norwegian.

[MartialArchiveTv]

@Gilmaris

thearma.org/Manuals/i33/i33.ht­m

[Gilmaris]

(...cont.) The closest we get to Norse martial arts preserved in any degree would perhaps be the I.33, the oldest known European fighting manual. Granted, this was written in the 13th century, and the viking age ended in the 11th century, and it deals with sword and buckler rather than sword and large shield, but certain principles are going to be similar, at least. But even with the aid of manuscripts, European martial arts need to be reconstructed, as interpretation is necessary.

[Gilmaris]

@MartialArchiveTv Well, there was never a viking empire, as such. The viking age was made possible by the lack of organized defence on the part of the victims, but then viking raids were themselves lacking on an organisational level. Vikings were raiders, not conquerors. Now, since pretty much everyone settled on shield and hand weapon (and archers, of course), martial arts would be rather similar. But there would likely not be one single system, and no system has been preserved, unfortunately.

[MartialArchiveTv]

@Gilmaris Once again, thank you for your comments. However we would like to go beyond the negative. Could you direct us to a web resource that more accurately reflects Norse martial arts? We would be very interested if there are any contemporary non-Norse accounts of these arts that are not overly imaginative. Plus how Norse martial arts were adapted across the Viking empire.