Tag: military history
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Vikings Abroad
Originally, I had planned to immediately jump into the realm of raids by discussing France. However, There are some things that are worth noting before we get into the fine, lovely, and often messy details. The nature of this lesson is really to cover miscellaneous concerns, mostly in chronology, motivations, and level of organization. CHRONOLOGY…
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Viking Age Warfare
Prepare yourself, for our ships are nearly ready to sail west. In this lesson, we will be briefly discussing the foundations for future raiding: warfare. How did they fight? How organized were they? What was the scale? What advantages did they have? It would be foolish to assume that these northmen just washed ashore and…
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Viking Age Weaponry
I originally had included this together with “Viking Warfare,” but, upon writing up that lesson, I realized that they should be split. So, next week we will begin out prelude into the raids. For now, we will bridge our way from art to war with the art of their weapons. Although we will not be covering…
