Illustrations of history

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Loading a crossbow from a standing position, without (left) and with (right) a stirrup to place the foot in. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The stirruped version is so common that we have a specific word for it in Finnish, "jalkajousi" "footbow", where any crossbow is "varsijousi" and a smaller ones can be "käsijousi" "handbow". But jalkajousi is the most common word for a large crossbow I'd say, stirruped or not.

I shot one in my tweens iirc (as in I remember the shooting but not the age). A proper non-modern one as well, some class trip I think to an outdoors museum sort of thing.