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A Christian and a Muslim warrior engage in single combat. Fragment of a floor mosaic from the destroyed church of Santa Maria Maggiore of Vercelli (Lombardy), erected in 1148.

LINK: https://www.researchgate.net/figure...ragment-of-a-floor-mosaic-from_fig6_233376955

 

[5fish]

I found this fun click bait the top ten women duelist and their duels... it a fun read for any of the duels were over a lover...

A list of the ladies...

10 Historical Female Duelists and their Duels - History Collection

One-on-one fights as a point of honor or to settle a score have occurred throughout history. These fights, known as duels, take their name from the Italian duello, which is in turn derived from the duellum; an archaic Latin term for war. People fought duels from the earliest times. The Vikings...

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Christian ‘Kit’ Cavanagh
Julie D’Aubigny aka Mademoiselle Maupin
Agnes Hotot.
The Comtesse De Saint- Belmont
Olga Zavarova and Ekaterina Polesova
The ‘Emancipation’ Duel
Miss Shelby versus Madame Marie-Rose Astie de Valsayre
Isabelle De Carazzi and Diambra De Pottinella
The Comtesse De Polignac and the Marquis De Nesle
Marta Duran and Juana Luna

 

[diane]

The Comtesse de Polignac - well, what do you know! That's Prince Polecat's grandma!

 

[5fish]

Here is King Arthur's Tale... written folklore/history...

 

[5fish]

I found a new term for single combat... Champion Warfare... in literature...

Champion warfare - Wikipedia

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Champion warfare refers to a type of battle, most commonly found in the epic poetry and myth of ancient history, in which the outcome of the conflict is determined by single combat, an individual duel between the best soldiers ("champions") from each opposing army. Champion warfare can also refer to a battle in which armies actually engage, but champions within the armies fight so effectively as to single-handedly carry the sway of battle, such as in the Iliad.

Champion warfare in literature[edit]

• Numerous instances of champion warfare can be observed in Homer's Iliad, most notably the climactic battle between Achilles and Hector, although there are many more.[1]
• Champion warfare has numerous examples in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
• Champion warfare is a common theme in the early books of Livy's history of Rome Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City), including the story of the famous triplets of the Horatii and Curiatii families and the great champion Horatius Cocles.
• Large-scale battles in the Chinese novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin typically begin with champion combat.
• The Combat of the Thirty in 1351 between competing French lineages was held as a model of chivalric combat.
• Champion warfare is a common occurrence in Indian epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The latter's fate is decisively determined by Rama, and his nemesis Ravana
• In the Bible, the battle between David and Goliath is an example of champion warfare. Group champion combat, where a certain number of champions from each side battle, also existed, as shown in the Battle of Gibeon, where General Abner, loyal to King Ish-bosheth, had twelve champions duel twelve warriors chosen from the ranks of King David's army by General Joab. (2 Samuel 2:12–17 describes the duels themselves.)
• Champion warfare is a common theme in Irish mythology, notably in the Ulster Cycle, with Cú Chulainn fighting many duels.
• In the Old High German Hildebrandslied, champion warfare between a father and his son are the main theme.
• American science fiction writer Fredric Brown wrote the 1944 story Arena, in which a single human and a single malevolent alien fight to the death as the champions of their respective species.

 

[5fish]

Here is a site listing the greatest swordsman...

7 of The Most Skilled Sword Fighters in History

Besides perhaps the gun, no other weapon has been as heavily romanticized as the sword. For millennia, we’ve been using the sword to settle debates, both personal quarrels in the form of duels, and national conflicts in the form of wars.

www.ancient-origins.net

Besides perhaps the gun, no other weapon has been as heavily romanticized as the sword. For millennia, we’ve been using the sword to settle debates, both personal quarrels in the form of duels, and national conflicts in the form of wars. But the truth, is the use of the sword in warfare has been oversold to us. The sword has a high skill ceiling, limited range, and limited versatility in a combat setting. Much of the time, it only served as a secondary weapon. Yet one thing remains true: when it comes down to the rule of cool, the sword still reigns supreme. History is full of tales of legendary swordsmen who mastered this difficult martial art. Here are seven of history’s greatest swordsmen.

 

[5fish]

HERE IS A VIDEO ABOUT GREAT WARRIORS...

 

[5fish]

Here is a King Arthur... Another story of a Roman... @alexjack

Ambrosius Aurelianus, or Emrys Wledig.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, known to Welsh as Emrys Wledig, was High King of the Britons after Vortigern. Our information regarding him is however, often obscure

www.englishmonarchs.co.uk

Ambrosius Aurelianus, known to Welsh as Emrys Wledig, was High King of the Britons after Vortigern. Our information regarding him is however, often obscure, clouded and contradictory and fact and legend have become inextricably intertwined.

Here more...

Ambrosius Aurelianus - New World Encyclopedia

www.newworldencyclopedia.org

The fact that Ambrosius Aurelianus resisted the Saxons and may have evolved through legend to become King Arthur remains an important aspect of the British national identity. As a war leader, he was valiant in his efforts to withstand ancient enemies and inspired the British people to celebrate his legacy by naming their children after him.

Here more...

High King Ambrosius Aurelianus

Ambrosius Aurelianus was, according to the later legends, the high king of the Britons after Vortigern.

www.historyfiles.co.uk

Whether Ambrosius was a king of the Britons, a war leader against the Saxons, a Briton, a Roman, all of the above or none of the above, isn't known for sure outside the legends and tales about him.

Some have thought that Ambrosius and Arthur are really one and the same, others that he was Arthur's uncle. The truth is probably that Ambrosius Aurelianus was a genuine, heroic, fifth century, Romano-British war leader, some of whose own exploits have been applied to the legend of Arthur.

 

[5fish]

Here is a theory on the King Arthur's sword...

The Bronze Sword in the Stone?

I’ve been catching up on Arthurian legend/history recently, and have twice come across the interesting suggestion that the “sword in the stone” could have originated as an …

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I’ve been catching up on Arthurian legend/history recently, and have twice come across the interesting suggestion that the “sword in the stone” could have originated as an idea from the Bronze Age practice of casting a sword in a stone mould. Interesting, but ridiculous. This idea seems to originate with Francis Pryor, an eminent archaeologist of prehistory (not, in fact, the Migration Period/Dark Ages), who raises it in his ‘Britain A.D.’ series, and again in a Time Team special.

http://bronzeagefoundry.com/sword-i... into the legend of,the Bronze Age in Britain!

– the magical sword, embedded in a huge stone, which cannot be drawn by any but the rightful king. Incorporated into the legend of King Arthur in the 5th century, this myth of the king-making sword being pulled from a stone is actually much older, and there are some scholars who believe that it dates back thousands of years, to the Bronze Age in Britain!

 

[5fish]

A more historical or science look at single combat...

 

[5fish]

I found this single-combat knight against German tanks in 1938. He on horse stood in their way and they walked around him. The last knight name was Josef Mencik. He had a castle to...

Josef Mencik - History's last knight stood against the Nazis

Josef Mencik wore his knightly armor, rode his horse, and stood against the invading Nazi column with sword at hand.

www.sandboxx.us

The Last Knight: Josef Mencik and the Nazis - Historic Mysteries

When Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslavakia in 1938, the world did nothing. One man however, Josef Mencik, rode out to stop the advancing tanks in knightly armor.

www.historicmysteries.com

World War II was such an utterly massive conflict that it really is amazing how many great stories rarely get their due. When you have a war that big and involving so many millions of people, you have millions of stories. Some are heroic, others tragic, and some are even slightly humorous and out of this world. It’s in the last category that we find a man named Josef Mencik, the Last Knight.

 

[5fish]

@rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer , @O' Be Joyful , @jgoodguy , @diane , @Union8448 ,@VBano
I found this short but cool video about the different types of Gladiators in Roman times... There are more than you think...

 

[rittmeister]

@rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer , @O' Be Joyful , @jgoodguy , @diane , @Union8448 ,@VBano
I found this short but cool video about the different types of Gladiators in Roman times... There are more than you think...

List of Roman gladiator types - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

just saying

... and does that scissor weapon remind you of something?

 

[5fish]

I learned Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine helped promote and embellish King Arthur's myth with her poets and troubadours...

BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: King Arthur, 'Once and Future King'

Michael Wood searches for the truth behind the Arthur myth.

www.bbc.co.uk

At the same time, the stories of Arthur began to bloom in the Celtic lands of northern France. This French connection began soon after the Norman Conquest, when Henry II of England married the vivacious and beautiful Eleanor of Aquitaine. In their court the two worlds of French and English literature intermingled, and poets and troubadours transformed the Arthur legend from a political fable to a tale of chivalric romance.

Perhaps the most important among the court writers was Chrétien de Troyes, who worked for Eleanor´s daughter Marie de Champagne. Chrétien is probably the greatest medieval writer of Arthurian romances, and it was he who turned the legend from courtly romance into spiritual quest. The mysterious Holy Grail, one of the most captivating motifs in all literature, first appears as part of the Arthurian legend in Chrétien's unfinished poem 'Perceval, or the Story of the Grail' (1181-90):

Chrétien´s image of the grail, luminous and other-worldly, became a mystical symbol of all human quests, of the human yearning for something beyond, desirable and yet unattainable. With that, the Arthur legend entered the true realm of myth.

By the time the Tudor king Henry VII came to the throne in 1485, chivalric tales of Arthur's knightly quests and of the Knights of the Round Table, inspired by Chrétien de Troyes, had roused British writers to pen their own versions, and Arthur was a well established British hero. Thomas Malory's work the Death of Arthur, published in 1486, was one of the first books to be printed in England.

 

[jgoodguy]

I learned Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine helped promote and embellish King Arthur's myth with her poets and troubadours...

BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: King Arthur, 'Once and Future King'

Michael Wood searches for the truth behind the Arthur myth.

www.bbc.co.uk

At the same time, the stories of Arthur began to bloom in the Celtic lands of northern France. This French connection began soon after the Norman Conquest, when Henry II of England married the vivacious and beautiful Eleanor of Aquitaine. In their court the two worlds of French and English literature intermingled, and poets and troubadours transformed the Arthur legend from a political fable to a tale of chivalric romance.

Perhaps the most important among the court writers was Chrétien de Troyes, who worked for Eleanor´s daughter Marie de Champagne. Chrétien is probably the greatest medieval writer of Arthurian romances, and it was he who turned the legend from courtly romance into spiritual quest. The mysterious Holy Grail, one of the most captivating motifs in all literature, first appears as part of the Arthurian legend in Chrétien's unfinished poem 'Perceval, or the Story of the Grail' (1181-90):

Chrétien´s image of the grail, luminous and other-worldly, became a mystical symbol of all human quests, of the human yearning for something beyond, desirable and yet unattainable. With that, the Arthur legend entered the true realm of myth.

By the time the Tudor king Henry VII came to the throne in 1485, chivalric tales of Arthur's knightly quests and of the Knights of the Round Table, inspired by Chrétien de Troyes, had roused British writers to pen their own versions, and Arthur was a well established British hero. Thomas Malory's work the Death of Arthur, published in 1486, was one of the first books to be printed in England.

Early soap operas.

 

[5fish]

Here is an article proposing William Marshall was the muse for Lancelot... Other muses too...

The Greatest Knight: The Historical Basis For Sir Lancelot | Faith & Heritage

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