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Swatton is a self-educated blacksmith and a trained jeweller. [2] When he was young, he used to cut gems and later expanded his skillset to include silversmithing.When he was 15, he met Jody Samson who had worked on the Conan the Barbarian film, and started to swap gems with Samson for knives.
Though in English the term man-at-arms is a fairly straightforward rendering of the French homme d'armes, [b] in the Middle Ages, there were numerous terms for this type of soldier, referring to the type of arms he would be expected to provide: In France, he might be known as a lance or glaive, while in Germany, Spieß, Helm or Gleve, and in various places, a bascinet. [2]
Some have suggested that the 'armed man' represents St Michael the Archangel. [2] The composer Johannes Regis ( c. 1425 – c. 1496 ) seems to have intended that allusion in his Dum sacrum mysterium/Missa l'homme armé based upon the melody, which incorporates various additional trope texts and cantus firmus plainchants in honour of St Michael ...
The Duchy of Brittany also ordered the equivalent of the lance in an ordinance of 1450. While the basic lance was the familiar three man structure of man-at-arms, coutilier and page, dependent on the wealth of the man-at-arms, additional archers or juzarmiers (that is, men equipped with a guisarme) were added.
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Born into a family of Durham dyers, Trollope began his long military career in France in the 1420s as a man-at-arms, serving first on Tombelaine under Thomas Burgh and then with the garrisons at Fresnay-le-Vicomte and Caen under John Fastolf in the Duke of Somerset's raid into Picardy in February 1440.
He-Man, Man-at-Arms and Teela come to the aid of Chief Merlo, whose daughter Podi has been kidnapped by Rago, an embittered soldier in Merlo's employ who plots to take over Eternia. His plan involves kidnapping Podi (along with Orko) and forcing her to remove the Moorfire Stones, which he intends to use to power Zegone - a mechanical creature ...
Theodore Meir Bikel (/ b ɪ ˈ k ɛ l / bih-KEL; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist.. He made his stage debut in Tevye the Milkman in Mandatory Palestine, where he lived as a teenager.