Citations:buhurt

English citations of buhurt

in the 12th and 13th centuries, a hastilude involving horse-riding, lance play, and clashing of shields

also spelled behourd, buhurt, béhourd, behort

• 1971, Hugo Bekker, The Nibelungenlied: A Literary Analysis, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN)

  Looking back, we see the beginning of the “maere,” colorful and gay with its festivals and buhurts. The disappearance of ornament, of clothes and other colorful materials, contributes to this effect by negative suggestion.

• 1978, Martin Joseph Kuelbs, The Middle High German Heroic Novel "Biterolf und Dietleib": A Literary Analysis and Review of the Research, page 51:

  The knightly activities at Etzel's court in the " Nibelungenlied " are buhurts and not tournaments. In contrast to the tournament, in which regular weapons could be used and heavy armor was worn, the buhurt was strictly a display of horsemanship in which only blunt weapons were used and in which no armor was worn.

• 1991, Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, Univ of California Press (→ISBN):

  [page 222:] "Whatever anybody wanted, whatever he had his mind set on, he found plenty of it there: buhurts, tournaments, sword-fighting, javelin-throwing, stone-hurling, jumping, fiddling, harping, singing; […] "

  [pages 258-259:] THE BUHURT

  Entirely different in nature from the melée was the buhurt. […] a buhurt was held on the occasion of the knighting of Pippin (5047 f.). […] After the emperor's sons had been knighted, the knights rode a buhurt carrying only a shield and no other weapons. […] In this type of buhurt the aim was to force the opponent aside with the shield or knock him off his horse. "The buhurt got so rough that many a knight along with his horse fell to the ground, where he could find no rest, for the kicks of the horses were so painful that on this day he had no further desire to ride the buhurt for the sake of the ladies; his whole body ached."

• 2020, HowExpert, Abigail Bethke, HowExpert Guide to Medieval Reenactment: 101 Tips to Become a Medieval Reenactor, Experience the Middle Ages, and Have Fun at Renaissance Fairs, HowExpert (→ISBN), page 16:

  Like the HEMA community, the Buhurt community is a coalition of groups that focus on historically accurate combat. However, the similarities between the two organizations stop there. Buhurt is much more intense than HEMA, ...