Real Medieval Fire Arrows! [Video 29:27]

Medieval fire arrows were real! So I followed the old books, made some and tested them in every way I could think of.

We have loads of old manuscripts, pictures, drawings, fire arrow heads and recipes of fire arrows but because some people haven't looked at the old information and can't make them work, lots of people think they were a myth. You see them everywhere in films and computer games so it is easy to dismiss them as a modern popular culture affectation - they were as real as you are.

So this film is an exhaustive description of what they were and how they made them work, woven through with a series of tests and demonstrations and showing the sources.

The rest of the bowandarrow keyword, sorted, edited:

Glacial Archaeologists Have Recovered a 4,000-Year-Old Arrow From Melted Ice [09/20/2023]
Glacial Archaeologists Find Arrow In Melting Ice [08/21/2022]
Historian Mike Loades Debunks 'The Agincourt Myth' [06/06/2022]
Stunningly Well-Preserved Arrows With Feathers Revealed By Melting Ice Sheets In Norway [05/12/2022]
Norway officials: Bow-and-arrow attack appears act of terror [suspect flagged as muslim] [10/14/2021]
Town Rocked by Night of Terror as Man Goes on Bow and Arrow Rampage in Norway -- Many Dead [10/13/2021]
The Secret Fight Master Of The Middle Ages [09/23/2021]
Expert on Amazon tribes killed by arrow from uncontacted group [09/10/2020]
Native Indian Skipping Arrow [06/24/2019]
Prince Hal's Head-Wound: Cause and Effect [Battle of Shrewsbury 1403] [04/19/2019]
Otzi the iceman really was killed by an ARROW: Europe's oldest mummy (tr) [01/05/2018]
Lancaster [California] Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Bow-and-Arrow Killing [08/25/2017]
One heck of a Shot [11/17/2016]
Ever wonder what happens when you shoot a .50 cal bullet with an arrow? [11/08/2016]
How Did Armies Keep Archers Supplied With Arrows While Fighting? [07/30/2015]
Did King Harold II Die With an Arrow in His Eye? [05/09/2015]
Lars Andersen: a new level of archery (YouTube video, 5:51) [01/24/2015]
World's fastest archer Lars Anderson debunks Hollywood archery myths [01/24/2015]
Archery Quite Unlike Any Other (video) [01/23/2015]
Prehistoric hunting scenes unearthed in Spanish cave [05/25/2014]
Stone Age Bow and Arrows Uncovered in Norway [10/18/2013]
Stonehenge Was An Ancient Burial Ground For the Rich: Study [04/27/2013]
The Origins of Archery in Africa [07/06/2011]
400,000 year old spears found in an German coal mine! [10/11/2010]
Experts Reveal 'Ancient Massacre' (UK - 3590BC) [03/12/2007]
Ancient Town Found Near Stonehenge [01/30/2007]
S. Korea: Mounted Archers Training in a Mongol Plateau [08/31/2006]
History Channel to air Ancient Battles [Persians-Greeks-Romans - starts 7/23] [07/20/2004]
DNA Shoots Hole in Captain Cook Arrow Legend [04/29/2004]
Tests Reveal Amesbury Archer "King Of Stonehenge' Was A Settler From The Alps [02/08/2004]
Bio Warfare Rears Its Head- The Ancient world USED IT!!!(MUST READ!) [01/30/2004]
USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Ancient Greek Military:Mercenaries ~ December 16, 2003 [12/16/2003]
USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Ancient Warfare: Ancient Egyptian Military ~ July 8, 2003 [07/08/2003]
Unearthed, The Prince Of Stonehenge [08/25/2002]
Ancient grave discovered [05/17/2002]

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