Our readers will be interested in this note from
Bill Short,
researcher, author and fellow Viking Age re-enactor. Bill is associated
with the Higgins Armoury Musueum, and we of DARC have worked along side
him on several occasions.
Generally, his
Hurstwic web site is an excellent overview of many aspects of Norse archaeology, live and that group's ongoing experiments and research.
(The following was scooped from a recent Facebook posting from Bill)
William Short
I've
been updating some of the Hurstwic web articles with additional and
updated text, and with many dozens of new photos. A lot of the photos
were shot for my next book and illustrate our current interpretation of
Viking fighting moves from the sagas. The new material is interspersed
with the old, but most of it is in the arms and armor articles:
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/arms.htm
and in the turfhouse article:
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/Turf_Houses.htm
www.hurstwic.org
Comparatively
little is known about Viking age weapons, and even less is known
about how the weapons were used. This limited knowledge is due to the
limited sources we have available for the study of Viking age weapons
and their use. This series of interlinked articles summarizes what is
known ...
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