Running The Ring

After the introduction, one of the ‘games’ the knights did was running the ring.

The riders rode down the line with a lance.

A ‘squire’ held the ring in his hand.

The goal of the run was to end up with a ring on the lance. 

Interesting stuff when looking up info:
The Medieval Tournament by R. Coltman Clephan said the lance was 10 ft 7 inches. That’d be fun to scale down. Also according to the book, Running The Ring was a later form of the quintain.
The RoundTable Productions website said the quintain was a training tool for a jousting knight.

4 thoughts on “Running The Ring

  1. Unknown's avatar Anonymous January 19, 2015 / 10:43 pm

    All of these jousting posts are so cool! This game in particular would be fun in mini scale- if I ever end up creating a miniature version of this, could I use these pictures in my documentation? Thank you so much for sharing!

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  2. Unknown's avatar Anonymous January 20, 2015 / 3:39 am

    Sure! Feel free to use anything. 🙂

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  3. Unknown's avatar Anonymous January 19, 2015 / 10:43 pm

    All of these jousting posts are so cool! This game in particular would be fun in mini scale- if I ever end up creating a miniature version of this, could I use these pictures in my documentation? Thank you so much for sharing!

    Like

  4. Unknown's avatar Anonymous January 20, 2015 / 3:39 am

    Sure! Feel free to use anything. 🙂

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