Some stances with the A&A Hungarian Axe

First off just a quick pic showing the relative size of the Arms & Armor Hungarian Axe. I am 5′10″

Next, two pics showing the two of the most common stances in ourreconstructed style. On top, the Polomski and on the bottom, the Hungarian.

Much of what we show here of the reconstructed style works quite well [...]

Baranta

Not sure about where all the techniques and combat theories in the modern Hungarian art of Baranta come from but at least we can see some of the influence of the shepards stick in this video clip.

Dust Devil or Wizard?

The Songs of the Russian People: As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life
By William Ralston Shedden Ralston
Published by Ellis & Green, 1872
The Russian peasant generally attributes such winds to the wild dances in which the devil indulges when celebrating his marriage with a witch; but sometimes, he thinks, a wizard is being whirled [...]

The Poorman and the King of crows

Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars: of the Russians, western Slavs, and Magyars
By Jeremiah Curtin
Published by Little, Brown, 1890
” But how wilt thou enter the black castle, since it is covered all around with a stone wall, and whirls unceasingly on a golden cock’s foot? But make no account of [...]

Mountain axe and entrenching tool clip

Here is a short clip that first shows two techniques with the mountain axe then some quick work with the entreching tool. I like the e-tool since i can easily carry it around in the car, definitely during the winter plus it makes for a good substitute for a short belt axe.
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Austria: Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire 1828

 
Austria: Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire
By Frederic Shoberl
Published by C. S. Williams, 1828
The usual costume of the peasants of the Bukowina, consists of white or red trowsers, a shirt, the wide, open sleeves of which are embroidered at the wrist, and over that an [...]

The plague swarm 1890

Sixty Folk-Tales
from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
by A. H. Wratislaw
The Plague Swarm
[1890]
A RUTHENIAN, having lost his wife and children by the plague, fled into the forest from his desolate cottage and sought safety there. He wandered about all day long; towards evening he constructed a booth of branches, lit a little fire, and fell asleep, wearied out. [...]

Mary Barton: An Historical Tale of Poland 1846

Mary Barton: An Historical Tale of Poland
By Henry Krasinski
Published by A.K. Newman and Co., 1846
 
One of the Colonel’s coachmen, a Carpathian mountaineer proposed to exhibit a performance common in his country. He was a man exceedingly tall and broad-chested, but appeared to possess singular activity. His brown hair, hanging down upon his back was curled at the end ; a kind [...]

Travels Through Several Provinces of the Russian Empire 1808

Travels Through Several Provinces of the Russian Empire: With an Historical Account of the Zaporog Cossacks, and of Bessarabia, Moldavia, Wallachia and the Crimea
By Pierce Balthasar Campenhausen, Freiherr von Pierce Balthasar Campenhausen
Published by Printed for Richard Phillips, by J.G. Barnard, 1808

The external appearance of the Wallachians, forms a
singular contrast with the state of degradation in [...]

WTF?

Found this on a google image search…no explaination but I thought worth sharing to show the sexy side of axe play:)