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,== Catalogue of evidence==
'''Art'''<br>
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'''Literature'''<br>
* 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” [MANLEY 1985King 2007]* Beowulf – Written c.1000** Lines 1432-1435::“The prince of the Geats ::With, his arrowed bow deprived one of life,::Of strife with the sea, so that stood in his vitals::The hard war-arrow : he was in the holm” [STEPHENSON 2007Garnet 1912]** Lines 1744-1746::“Who from arrowed bow spitefully shoots.::Then is he in his breast pierced under his helmet::With a sharp arrow : he cannot defend him” [Garnet 1912]*Lines 1765::“Or grip of the sword, or flight of the arrow.” [Garnet 1912]::Lines 2437-2439::“Since him did Haethcyn from his horned bow,::His own dear lord, with arrow pierce,::Missed he the mark and his kinsman did shoot,” [Garnet 1912]*Lines 3115::“Him who oft awaited the iron-shower,::When the storm of arrows, loosed from the strings,::Leaped over the shield-wall, the shaft did its duty,::Fitted with feathers followed the barb." [Garnet 1912]*Life of St Guthlac::“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” [Goodwin 1948: p.29]::“and lo ! this same thorn, as an arrow speeds from the bow, so did it fly from the man, and go to a distance;” [Goodwin 1948: p.69]*Anglo-Saxon Chronicle **Battle of Brumby AD 938::there lay many::of the Northern heroes::under a shower of arrows,::shot over shields; [Ingram 1912]
'''Archaeology'''<br>
see [[Bows and Arrow Shafts found in Western Europe]] <br>
