Posted on 04/11/2023 9:19:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
heh heh heh heh right?
Yes.
The headline does more than suggest that warriors had a number of shields and the best or “ceremonial” shields were miraculously sometimes used in battle. Looking at the details of the shields and their construction, a warrior would be lucky to have more than one shield and in battle, that defensive artifact would be beaten to splinters.
I think that they were too nomadic for sustained growth. the source of their wealth was the plunder of their immediate and sometimes far-flung neighbors. But while their light burned brightly for only a few hundred years, The Danes were able to take a huge swath of Europe, from Greenland and Iceland to the Baltics states and Russia. The results of their genetic experiments are still visible in the native populations of every nation and tribe they overran.
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