Showing posts with label honfoglalás. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honfoglalás. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Honfoglaló magyarok - Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin

Magyars used to ride horses (around 800 A.D. today we drive cars, bikes etc.) and their special fighting technique was to pretend retreat and when the enemy started chasing them magyar horsemen turned back on their horses (as seen above in the drawing) and shot their arrows at the enemy.

A labirintus közepén lévő rajz egy honfoglalás kori magyar harci technikát mutat be: menekülést színlelni, majd az ellenséget meglepve a lovon hátrafordulva visszafelé nyilazni.

Making a sabretache/tarsoly készítés


Tarsolylemez fóliába karcolásához minták.

Tarsoly (pronounced 'tar-shoy) is a kind of bag (sabretache) in which Magyars used to keep stuff for making fire with (fire stone etc.) They were used by the Magyars who were coming from Asia to Europe around 800-900 A.D. and also later somewhat similar bags were used by hussars (huszárok). Tarsolylemez is the decorative cover plate of the bag. You can scratch motifs from "tarsolylemez" into special silver foil. It can be bought in creative hobby shops or some types of sour cream and yoghurt packaging also used to have this kind of cover. You can use the back of such packaging. Recycle :) So a slightly thicker aluminum foil is needed (not silver foil- that gets wrinkled too easily) and a pointed object such as a pen that ran out of ink or a blunt needle.
Here is a photo of children making "tarsolylemez".
source of photo: http://www.museum.hu/museum/event_hu.php?IDE=12587&ID=385

You can also make an actual tarsoly (not only the trasoly plate) from felt or leather but that is a bit more difficult.

On this wenbsite there is a lengthy explanation about tarsoly in Hungarian. I put the link here because you can see a drawing of how the tarsoly was worn on the belt.

http://www.tarsolyosok.hu/atarsoly.htm

A fenti link alatt egy tarsolyos honlap bújik meg, ahol tarsoly szabásminta is van. (Na azért kicsit túlzás, de valami rajz féleség az Elkészítem a tarsolyomat menüpontban. Illetve van sok kép tarsolyokról.