u/OtakuLibertarian2

I plan to start a HEMA and Historical Reenactment group in about a year, focused on the Iberian Iron Age, primarily on two Celtiberian peoples: the Gallaecian and Lusitanian, who fought against Rome before being conquered and Romanized.

In addition to Celtiberian reenactments and battles, we also plan to include some reenactments of Ancient Rome, as well as reenactments of theof the Gallaecian-Roman and Lusitanian-Roman cultures that formed during and after Romanization. The Roman reenactment part is not a problem for us; however, we have had a lot of difficulty researching the armor, warfare styles, etc., specific to the Gallaecian and Lusitanian. Most Celtic Iron Age reenactment groups focus almost exclusively on the Gauls.

Could anyone help us?

Remember, in our project we only have these two peoples: Gallaecians and Lusitanians.

No joke, what is Mimi's canonical mental health status ??

I really love webcomic. MIMI BEST WAIFU <3

I'm referring to an attempt to create a standardized national language that would combine the unique characteristics of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian

These four languages ​​are only considered separate languages ​​for political reasons, because in practice they are dialects of the same language, completely mutually intelligible.

Considering that the modern Macedonian Slavic language of FYROM is nothing more than a conlang created by Boris Tito's government (mixing the Bulgarian language of FYROM with Serbian words), it surprises me that during the Socialist Kingdom and Republic of Yugoslavia there was never an attempt to standardize these BCMS dialects.

How do they look and what are the purposes of these 6 weapons comparatively?

This question is part of a fantasy project set in an alternate universe, where all human populations consist of a mixture of extinct peoples from the real world who were teleported there. Isekai style.

My lore is as follows:

Thousands of years ago, on the island where the story takes place, Normans from different historical periods were teleported to this magical world full of abundance:

- Rollo and his 2000 Viking colonists (Danes and Norse Gaels) who settled in Neustria, founding the Duchy of Normandy in 911 AD. These 2000 colonists were also accompanied by their mixed-race children (the first generation of Normans born from the marriage of Viking colonists with Gallo-Roman women).

- William the Conqueror along with 500 of his most skilled soldiers from noble Norman families of Scandinavian origin.

- 350 Anglo-Norman and Cambro-Norman knights from the height of the Angevin Empire.

Before these three groups had a chance to wage war against each other, Saint Brigid of Ireland appeared to these men, revealing to them the divine purposes for being sent to this new land. She was accompanied by thousands of extremely beautiful Scandinavian women, similar to the Valkyries of Germanic legends. They were all blonde or red-haired, pale white, tall, and with an extremely strong physique, yet feminine and attractive.

These girls were originally children killed in human sacrifices, born in different regions of the Scandinavian peninsula, between the beginning of the Nordic Iron Age (5th century BC) and the end of the Viking Age (11th century AD). And who spent centuries in those flowery valleys waiting for their future husbands, promised by Brigid's prophecies.

Her presence was imposing and caused great fear and jubilation among the newly Christianized Norse-Gaelic soldiers of Rollo, who had heard much about the legends of the Celtic saint.

After 200 years living on the coast, the Normans developed a complex culture marked by Nordic elements from Rollo's time, with chivalric ethics, Christian religion, and the art and literature of the Anglo-Normans of William I and the Angevin Empire.

However, they were not the only inhabitants of that place. In the interior of the island there was also another people descended from the Goths of the Wielbark and Chernyakhov cultures.

A violent war ensued between them, and after the Norman conquest of the Goths, a new Norman-Gothic society was established that would build one of the greatest maritime empires of this world.

That said, I envision the language in two stages:

- The first stage would be a realistic evolution of the Proto-Norse spoken by Rollo (with some influences from Anglo-Norman and English, spoken by the other two groups of knights).

- The second phase is this same language receiving Gothic influences, this being the "classical" variant that would become the language of the Norman Empire in my story.

Aesthetically, I envision the vowels of "Germanic-Norman" being pronounced in a sweet, clear, and "romantic" way, similar to Shakespearean English, Classical Latin, and the Romance languages ​​(being like a Gallo-Romance influence in the story). Where native speakers of this Norman would pronounce all the vowels in a word, elongating them as if it were "spoken singing" due to its melodic and rhythmic nature.

At the same time, I want the consonants to have a "rough," "rustic," and "guttural" sound that we stereotypically associate with Germanic languages, whose phonological roots come exclusively from Old Norse and Gothic.

What do you think of my idea? Could someone give me some tips or help me with this project?

Currently, I mainly practice Shotokan Karate at my city's dojo and machete fencing at home. For the past two years, I've been trying to get back into kodokan Judo and bjj (a martial art I practiced as a child), but unfortunately, my former sensei retired.

Because of this, I discovered that in my region there are dojangs that teach Hapkido, a Korean jujutsu style derived from Japanese Daito-ryu. But I don't know what type of "Hapkido" they are teaching.

Could someone with a better understanding of this martial art tell me if someone who appreciates Judo, like myself, could benefit from Hapkido?

Furthermore, I'd like to know how many styles of Hapkido actually exist?
A few months ago, I thought there were only 3 main styles:

- the "traditional" style created by Master Choi Yong-sool (and developed by his students who added high kicks and other Korean techniques)

- Sin Moo Hapkido created by Ji Han-jae.

- Hankido-Hapkido of Myung Jae Nam.

However, the more I research, the more I see that the subdivisions seem to be much larger. Could someone explain this to me?

Currently, I mainly practice Shotokan Karate at my city's dojo and machete fencing at home. For the past two years, I've been trying to get back into kodokan Judo and bjj (a martial art I practiced as a child), but unfortunately, my former sensei retired.

Because of this, I discovered that in my region there are dojangs that teach Hapkido, a Korean jujutsu style derived from Japanese Daito-ryu. But I don't know what type of "Hapkido" they are teaching.

A few months ago, I thought there were only 3 main styles:

- the "traditional" style created by Master Choi Yong-sool (and developed by his students who added high kicks and other Korean techniques)

- Sin Moo Hapkido created by Ji Han-jae.

- Hankido-Hapkido of Myung Jae Nam.

However, the subdivisions seem to be much larger than that. To be clear, I'm not asking about "martial arts derived from Hapkido". But to the Korean styles that SELF-CLAIM to be part of Hapikido and that use the term "Hapikido" in their name.