The Welsh Viking | Did Vikings Really Prefer Axes to Swords? A Brief Look at Some Blades @TheWelshViking | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
Well? Did they? Do we really know? Can we really know? Probs not, but let's have a look at some lovely archaeology, discuss some history, rant about a couple of reenactorism type things, see if we can bury the hatchet, and figure out what sort of conclusions we can draw about Viking age weapons, how people felt about them, and what the reality of the situation a thousand years ago might have been.
Join me for some axe talk! There might even be a kitty cat friend!
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/collections/objects/the-langeid-broadaxe.html
Pedersen, Anne (2014) Dead Warriors in Living Memory. A study of weapon and equestrian burials in Viking-age Denmark, AD 800-1000. Publications from the National Museum. Studies in Archaeology & History Vol. 20:1 1
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/previous-projects/langeid/project/haft/#haft-length
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/weapons/axes/#:~:text=Whilst%20the%20swords%20of%20the,them%20on%20their%20last%20journey.
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Well? Did they? Do we really know? Can we really know? Probs not, but let's have a look at some lovely archaeology, discuss some history, rant about a couple of reenactorism type things, see if we can bury the hatchet, and figure out what sort of conclusions we can draw about Viking age weapons, how people felt about them, and what the reality of the situation a thousand years ago might have been.
Join me for some axe talk! There might even be a kitty cat friend!
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/collections/objects/the-langeid-broadaxe.html
Pedersen, Anne (2014) Dead Warriors in Living Memory. A study of weapon and equestrian burials in Viking-age Denmark, AD 800-1000. Publications from the National Museum. Studies in Archaeology & History Vol. 20:1 1
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/previous-projects/langeid/project/haft/#haft-length
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/weapons/axes/#:~:text=Whilst%20the%20swords%20of%20the,them%20on%20their%20last%20journey.
Credits by @Anttimation
Find me elsewhere:
Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
My actual website: welshviking.com
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Twitter: @realwelshviking
Letters, parcels, packages?
The Welsh Viking,
PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY
