an archer.
A soldier who fires a bow is commonly referred to as an archer. Archers are skilled in using a bow and arrow for combat or hunting purposes.
A soldier that fires a bow and arrow is often referred to as an archer or a bowman.
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its sword. No no, it just wouldn't have been the same "I was an adventurer like you until I took a sword to the knee" Seriously a bow is the device that looses or launches (NOT fires) the arrow, which is the missile part. Thus Bow and arrow(s).
It's both. A crossbow is a modified version of the simple bow. It is also classified as a firearm because it fires a projectile (the arrow or bolt).
Strong bow is a norman knight his real name is Richard de clare
Yes they did use bow and arrows. In regarding a medieval European knight, it would be very unusual for one of them to personally use a bow and arrow in warfare, or even in hunting. This is because the bow was considered a 'cowards' or 'commoners' weapon. Generally a knight would recruit - conscript would probably be a better word - peasants and similarly lowly people to shoot at other people for him.
No, a crossbow and a bow and arrow are not the same thing.a crossbow fires bolts not arrows, the string is drawn back using a winch, and is fired by pulling a trigger to release the stringa bow fires arrows, the string is drawn back by hand, and is fired simply by releasing the string from your fingersCrossbow bolts will penetrate plate metal armor while arrows fired from bows cannot.
Being a Knight in England meant that you were deputy head to the army, underneath the King. It meant that you rode ahead with the King going to battle. It also gave you rights to sit with the King on evenings, and the title 'Knight' meant that normal civilians had to bow beneath you.
The interesting thing about the Yeoman who travels with the Knight is that he is armed even on pilgrimage: A sheef of pecok arwes brighte and keneUnder his belt he bar ful thriftily, There are two considerations here. Firstly, the knight has spent most of his professional life overseas. It is likely that he has now retired to a small country estate where he lives with a band of servants. The Knight is unlikely to live in a town: he is no tradesman. On his country estate, the Knight needs someone who is good with bow and arrow - to hunt and trap game (an important source of meat, especially in the winter months). But it is also worth considering that several of the campaigns the Knight has fought in were of dubious legality (Tramyssene and Lettow were both very controversial, and commercial, wars - as Terry Jones explains in his book on The Knight's Tale). It is certainly possible that the Knight has been working as a mercenary, perhaps employed by the fourteenth century equivalent of The Mafia. There may well be a contract out on the Knight, and he may need to travel with a bodyguard. Chaucer doesn't make this explicit, but he leaves the idea open.