Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques
William R. Short, "Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques"
English | ISBN: 1594160767 | 2009 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 14 MB
English | ISBN: 1594160767 | 2009 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 14 MB
A History of the Arms, Armor, and Individual Fighting Strategies of Medieval Europe’s Most Feared Warriors
A source of enduring fascination, the Vikings are the most famous raiders of medieval Europe. Despite the exciting and compelling descriptions in the Icelandic sagas and other contemporary accounts that have fueled this interest, we know comparatively little about Viking age arms and armor as compared to weapons from other historical periods. We know even less about how the weapons were used. While the sagas provide few specific combat details, the stories are invaluable. They were written by authors familiar with the use of weapons for an audience that, likewise, knew how to use them. Critically, the sagas describe how these weapons were wielded not by kings or gods, but by ordinary men, as part of their everyday lives.
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