Viking Axes and Shields

[lollardfish]

I am not especially interested in re-enactment professionally speaking (as opposed to personal long-time ties with many people in re-enactment groups, and a general fondness for them), but sometimes re-enactors can do just terrific work that we academics would not replicate. Here's a report of tests done with a viking-style axe and shield. It's neat.

Comments

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

That's rather interesting...

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

You can't exactly prove what *was* done that way, but you can sure demonstrate that certain things *don't work*. Like the unfaced shield, for example. Fascinating.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Right, exactly. Really neat.