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    Tommy. "Bows and Arrows in the Viking Age". Harrieira, 2020, harreira.com/viking/bows-and-arrows-in-the-viking-age. "Arms and Armour Part 8 Shields"...
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    Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry. New York: Dover Publications Inc. ISBN 978-0-486-29288-5. V. D. Hampton,"Viking Age Arms and Armor...
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  • polearms in the context of Viking Age arms and armour, and in scientific literature about the Viking Age. In referring to the Viking Age weapon, the term "halberd"...
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    Atgeir (category Viking warfare)
    "hewing-spear", was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. The word is related to the Old Norse...
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  • Spatha (section Viking Age)
    decorations during the ensuing centuries. Ancient Rome portal Pugio Viking Age arms and armour spatha, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary,...
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    Dane axe (redirect from Viking axe)
    axe, or the proto-pollaxe. Broadaxe Long-bearded axe Sparth Viking Age arms and armour Viking halberd Petersen, Jan (1919). De Norske Vikingesverd. Kristiania...
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    Ono (axe) Japanese Sovnya Tomahawk Viking Age arms and armour Underwood, Richard (1999). Anglo-Saxon Weapons and Warfare. p.35-37. Tempus Publishing...
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    shield Roromaraugi Scutum (shield) Shield boss Shield wall Targe Viking Age arms and armour Yetholm-type shields Wood, J. G. (1870). The uncivilized races...
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    Links to a Viking identity remained longer in the remote islands of Iceland and the Faroes. Knowledge about the arms and armour of the Viking age is based...
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    warfare Francisca Gothic and Vandal warfare Gungnir Hasta Javelin Kragehul lance Migration Period sword Pilum Viking Age arms and armour "The oldest known runic...
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    Ulfberht swords (category Viking swords)
    Wolfperht, Vulpert) is recorded from the 8th to 10th centuries. Viking Age arms and armour Ingelrii, a similar inscription type Blade inscription According...
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    Swordsmanship (redirect from Master of arms)
    what may be concluded from archaeological evidence and artistic depiction (see Viking Age arms and armour). What little has been found, however, shows the...
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  • spear used by the Hindu deity Murugan List of types of spears Viking Age arms and armour Projectile Arrow Assegai Atlatl Bill Dart Glaive Halberd Javelin...
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    Ingelrii (category Viking swords)
    Ulfberht swords Viking Age arms and armour Oakeshott, Ewart R. (1960). The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry...
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    the 9th century. Iron Age sword Migration period spear Gothic and Vandal warfare Anglo-Saxon warfare Viking Age arms and armour A monographic treatment...
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    Anglo-Saxon warfare (category Warfare of the Middle Ages)
    Beowulf are described as champions in such athletic events. Viking Age arms and armour Gothic and Vandal warfare Endemic warfare Anglo-Saxon military organization...
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  • period sword Viking Age arms and armour Anglo-Saxon warfare Celtic warfare Military of Carthage Dacian warfare Viking raid warfare and tactics Anglo-Saxon...
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    Several of its members are commemorated on runestones, such as the Viking Runestones and the England Runestones. One example is the Komstad Runestone which...
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    made, and they may have been copied inaccurately from a manuscript text. Anglo-Saxon art Franks Casket Viking Age arms and armour Wetlands and islands...
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    known example of a complete Viking helmet in existence. Viking Age arms and armour Here is Haug Kirke (by Ardis Danger. Ringerike-Drammen District Lag...
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    The term "Viking Age" refers to the period roughly from 790s to the late 11th century in Europe, though the Norse raided Scotland's western isles well...
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    and the University of Nottingham. The helmet went back on display at the Yorkshire Museum in September 2019. Nasal helmet Viking Age arms and armour "Collections...
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    historian and illustrator Ewart Oakeshott introduced it in his 1960 treatise The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry...
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  • Oakeshott, Ewart (1997) [1960]. The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry. Mineola: Dover Publications. pp. 176–177...
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    Polearm (redirect from Pole arms)
    penetrate plate armour and featured various combinations of an axe-blade, a back-spike and a hammer. It was the favoured weapon for men-at-arms fighting on...
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  • Ewart Oakeshott (category Armour)
    and amateur historian who wrote prodigiously on medieval arms and armour. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Founder Member of the Arms...
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    used by the Vikings and continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages. The bodkin point eventually fell out of use during the 16th and 17th centuries...
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    could also come from the lower classes, and could even be enslaved persons. The cost of their armour, horses, and weapons was great; this, among other things...
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  • Machine A.M. Snodgrass (1966), "Arms and Armour of the Greeks" (Thames & Hudson, London) A.M. Snodgrass (1971), "The Dark Age of Greece" (Edinburgh University...
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    Claymore (category Scotland in the late Middle Ages)
    cross-hilt with forward-angled arms that ended in spatulate swellings. The lobed pommels on earlier swords were inspired by the Viking style. The spatulate swellings...
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