well like i said millitary, well i need (for my novel of course) a history of all the medieval fighting techniques and all the swords you could get in medieval times. thx
So you made your account just to leech information from people here instead of actually doing reseearch yourself? Your fantasy novel is already worth nothing. A writer must do research himself, not just come and demand from strangers just because that might be simpler. Wikipedia is your friend.
I actually suggest you get a book, called Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World. It's fantastic, fully-illustrated in vibrant colours, and packed with information on what you need. It's helped me; I'm sure it'll help you. I have no idea if you can get the book in Australia, but the book is a dark blue, if you want to search for it. Hope this helps you.
Youtube will also be a good guide. Plenty of sword-fighting examples, including interesting scandinavian sword and shield techniques. Bare in mind that if your fantasy novel is about individual combatants, rather than large scale combat with formations/shield walls etc, then different styles of fighting will be used.
True, but it is not always you know what to google. So if you just open "Sword" in wikipedia it'll give you a good collection of stuff, then you could google or open the sources listed on the bottom if the information does not sate what you looked for
There are a lot of places to research on the web and in books, but Wikipedia is a good start. Like Albirich said, you can find other resources at the bottom of the Wikipedia entries.
Yep, good wiki-fu is to find something you'd want to use on Wikipedia then follow the appropriate reference to see if it's origin looks trustworthy or not. Chances are, if you're on a fairly main page like "sword", then most of the links will be trustworthy. "Scandinavian fighting goats", not so much.
