[SunkenCiv]

[Sloane_Ranger]

Ahh....those Norsemen....Long Ships arriving in the early misty dawn off the coast of Britain... men with fair hair braided with bones, tattoed and with cold blue eyes and even colder steel....unleashing general mayhem in Saxon England.

They say the blood-eagle was particularly painful.

By the Hammer of Thor and the Beard of Odin...I will see you in Valhalla !! :-):-)

[Cronos]

"that the Great Army was not actually so great after all, numbering at most in the hundreds..."

Though an army of hundreds in the early middle ages was still a large undertaking.

For the Romans that was just a joke, but for the Anglo-Saxons, that was an Army