March 29, 2018Viking Era Highlights of Viking Age warfare – 4 This post continues a discussion of interesting tidbits from The Vikings and Their Enemies – Warfare in Northern Europe, 750 -1100 by […]
March 27, 2018March 29, 2018Viking Era Highlights of Viking Age warfare – 3 This post continues a discussion of interesting tidbits from The Vikings and Their Enemies – Warfare in Northern Europe, 750 -1100 by […]
March 21, 2018March 27, 2018Viking Era Highlights of Viking Age warfare – 2 This post continues a discussion of interesting tidbits from The Vikings and Their Enemies – Warfare in Northern Europe, 750 -1100 by […]
March 19, 2018March 21, 2018Viking Era Highlights of Viking Age warfare – 1 The Vikings and Their Enemies – Warfare in Northern Europe, 750 -1100 by Philip Line has lots of discussion on warfare in […]
March 9, 2018February 26, 2018Viking Era Condensed timeline of Viking Age Looking for a condensed timeline of the Viking Era? The translator’s notes of The Long Ships (New York Review Books Classics) by […]
February 26, 2018February 26, 2018Viking Era More indications the Vikings were not the only horrible and cruel people in the Middle Ages – part 6 Some of the battles between churchmen in Ireland are described in The Vikings – A History, by Robert Ferguson. There were limits […]
February 15, 2018Viking Era Vikings must have developed considerable skill at gathering intelligence For a while now I’ve been pondering how the Vikings knew where and when to raid. How did they figure out where […]
February 11, 2018February 11, 2018Viking Era Ponder the supporting industry needed for shipbuilding and seafaring during the Viking age. Ponder the extent of support needed to keep seagoing fleets of longships going to sea. Those state-of-the-art weapons needed maintenance and supplies. […]
February 3, 2018February 3, 2018Viking Era One frame of reference for comparing time to construct large projects With about 40,000 hours of labor, you could build this in around 900 A.D. …. ..or with about 55,000 hours of labor, […]
February 2, 2018Viking Era Another idea on what kicked off the violent Viking Age In The Vikings – A History Robert Ferguson suggests a different idea on the reasons for the start of the Viking Age, […]