Disclaimer

Some articles on this website are in english, we’re working on a full english version of our website. All our redactors are french and the Collective is a french HEMA effort, we are doing our best to translate all the articles and offer our work to english readers as well.

Manifesto

The Collective for Research and Experiment on Viking-age Combat is a french-speaking group. We’re gathered by the will of working together on the Viking-age fighting customs.

Research and experiment are the bases on which we wish to work. We aknowledge the laclk of primary sources on Viking combat, hence the need to keep a critic’s eye on our work at all costs. Our goal is not to build false assertions on the combat techniques or fighting traditions but to study the principles of the Viking-age combat by following a clear experimental process.

The Collective is born from the will to track and pursue our work on Viking-age combat. The gathering at Le Mans in Mars 2014 was the founding moment. It is a common will from both the instructors and the attendees to pursue our efforts on the works that were presented at the event.

The Collective isnt a reenactors’ group. We created this collective as a HEMA-minded group, and after a HEMA event. The founding members of the Collective wish to work on the Viking-age combat and claim their links to the french HEMA federation (FFAMHE). However, some of our members and redactors are active in the reenactment scene and/or are part of reenactment groups, we wish our collective to be an effort of diversity of views and exchange.

The Collective isnt an association nor a legal group but a gathering of people who share the same views on the Viking-age combat research and wish to bring their work to the reader.

Recherches et d'Expérimentations sur le Combat Viking dans les AMHE

English

Manifesto

The Collective for Research and Experiment on Viking-age Combat is a french-speaking group. We’re gathered by the will of working together on the Viking-age fighting customs.

The Collective is born from the will to track and pursue our work on Viking-age combat. The gathering at Le Mans in Mars 2014 was the founding moment. It is a common will from both the instructors and the attendees to pursue our efforts on the works that were presented at the event.

The Collective isnt an association nor a legal group but a gathering of people who share the same views on the Viking-age combat research and wish to bring their work to the reader.