== Archery mentioned in Literature ==
* ===Capitulary of Charlemeigne, ===''Mobilization alert: Aachen, mid-April 806''
::Each horseman is to carry shield and spear, long-sword and short-sword, '''bow, quivers and arrows''', and your carts are to contain implements of various kinds” [King 2007]
* ===Beowulf – ===''Written c.1000 '' [Garnet 1912]
:* Lines 1432-1435
::“The prince of the Geats
::Leaped over the shield-wall, the shaft did its duty,
::Fitted with feathers followed the barb."
*===Life of St Guthlac ===[Goodwin 1948: p.29]
::“that he might wound the hearts of men therewith, suddenly, as from a bended bow, he fixed the dart of his temptation in the soul of Christ’s soldier. When, therefore, the blessed man was wounded with the poisoned arrow of the accursed spirit,….. Thus had the devilish arrow wounded him with desperation”
::“and lo ! this same thorn, as an arrow speeds from the bow, so did it fly from the man, and go to a distance;”
:*AD 1083
::The Frenchmen broke into the choir, and hurled their weapons toward the altar, where the monks were; and some of the knights went upon the upper floor, (103) and shot their arrows downward incessantly toward the sanctuary; so that on the crucifix that stood above the altar they stuck many arrows. And the wretched monks lay about the altar, and some crept under, and earnestly called upon God, imploring his mercy, since they could not obtain any at the hands of men. What can we say, but that they continued to shoot their arrows; whilst the others broke down the doors, and came in, and slew (104) some of the monks to death,
* ===Battle of Maldon ==='' AD 901 – Written? '' [Killings 1996]
:*Lines 70-71
::“nor might any harm the other unless through an arrow's flight death receive.”
::at almost every moment giving out some wound,
::all the while with his weapon he would wield.”
*===Song of Roland === [Bacon 1914]
:*Verse 62
::" Give me the bow that in thy hand thou evermore dost bear.
:*Verse 170
::Farther than crossbow shoots the bolt into the land of Spain [P.95]
*===Poetic Edda - Rígsþula, The Lay of Rig – Written? ===[Ashliman 2010]
:*Verse 21
::There was the husband, string a-twining,
::“Young King rode once through thicket and wood,
::shooting arrows and slaying birds,”
*===Master Wace, The Chronicle of the Norman Conquest ===[Taylor 1837]
:* HOW THE KING OF FRANCE CAME AGAIN AGAINST DUKE WILLIAM, AND WAS DEFEATED AT VARAVILLE.
::“Then began a fierce melée, and many a stroke of lance and sword. The knights struck with their lances, the archers shot from their bows, and the villains attacked with their pikes; “ [p.60]