Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
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11/10/2021
Uncategorized England, English, Jomsvikings, Jorvik Viking Festival, medieval warfare, Sweden, Valsgärde, Vendel Culture, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Viking longship, Vikings, York Leave a comment
Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
22/09/2019
Uncategorized Anglo-Saxon, Britain, Britannia, British, Briton, England, English, medieval warfare, Military history, Military technology, Nordic, Scandinavian, Shield, United kingdom Leave a comment
Some time ago, I found this image of an Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian heavy infantryman as it looks. The most interesting feature is his shield Design, so I chose to republish it. Most of his arms and armour are Scandinavian – and definitely the crow standart behind him – but most
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18/06/2018
Uncategorized Britain, British, British History, England, English, Great Britain, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Viking longship, Vikings Leave a comment
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When the early Anglo-Saxons settled in the area, they established a settlement that later become known as Ludenwic. This settlement was sited 1.6 km’s from the ruins of Londinium, the Roman city (Named Lundenburh in Anglo-Saxon, to mean “London Fort”).
By around 600, Anglo Saxon England was divided into several small kingdoms known as the Heptarchy. Lundenwic came under control of the Mercian Kingdom in about 670, as the Kingdom of Essex became gradually reduced in size and status. After the death of Offa of Mercia in 796, it was later disputed between Mercia and Wessex.
19/03/2018
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Battle of Assandun, showing Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut the Great. (Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 26, fol. 80v)
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Under his father Kind Edgar, England had experienced a period of peace after the reconquest of the Danelaw in the mid-10th century. However, beginning in 980, small bands of Danish invaders carried out coastline raids testing defences across England that included Hampshire, Thanet, Cornwall, Dorset and Cheshire.
After several successful Danish raids such as the Battle of Maldon, where a sizable Danish fleet defeated Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex, Æthelred turned to paying tributes to hold off the invaders and keep the peace in his realm.
30/05/2017
Uncategorized Britain, Britannia, British, England, English, Fort, Fortress, Great Britain, Iron age, Roman Britain, Scotland, Scots, United kingdom, Wales 1 Comment
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A hill fort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement
The fortification usually follows the contours of a hill, consisting of one or more lines of earthworks, with stockades or defensive walls, and external ditches. Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC, and were in use by the ancient Britons until the Roman conquest. There are around 3,300 structures that can be classed as hillforts or similar “defended enclosures” within Britain, all worthy of considering. The following list represents ten of the most impressive examples.
Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south west of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. The name Maiden Castle may be a modern construction meaning that the hill fort looks impregnable, or it could derive from the British Celtic mai-dun, meaning a “great hill.”
The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the site consists of a Neolithic causeway enclosure and bank barrow. In about 1800 BC, during the Bronze Age, the site was used for growing crops before being abandoned. Maiden Castle itself was built in about 600 BC; the early phase was a simple and unremarkable site, similar to many other hill forts in Britain and covering 6.4 hectares (16 acres). Around 450 BC it underwent major expansion, during which the enclosed area was nearly tripled in size to 19 ha (47 acres), making it the largest hill fort in Britain and by some definitions the largest in Europe
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