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Viking Weapons and Warfare (Paperback)

by J.Kim Siddorn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: NPI Media Group; illustrated edition edition (1 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752414194
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752414195
  • Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 17 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A re-enactor's guide to Viking weapons and warfare, 10 Mar 2003
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The author has twenty years' experience of Viking re-enactment in Britain, which informs his views on equipment manufacture and use, battle tactics, and the experience of being a Viking warrior in the British sense of the term. The last is important: there is little or no analysis of the cultural, social, and geographic conditions of the Scandinavian region from which these Norse and Danish migrants originated.

The book is divided into chapters on iron (extraction and use), spears, shields, armour, swords, scabbards, helmets, money (including a table of comparative values of livestock, arms and armour, fines, weregilds, and consumables such as corn and fleece), ships, and the sea (including techniques of navigation). There are plenty of first-hand accounts of the manufacture of weapons and other equipment (for re-enactment purposes), and their use in simulated battle conditions.

There are ample illustrations, ranging from simple line drawings to colour photographs, which really help bring the subject to life, especially (for me) the photographs of re-enactors in full costume. It's easy to think of the past in terms of fragmentary archaeological remains; seeing pictures of real men in real gear brought home to me just how frightening these people would have been.

The book probably contains too much technical detail for the general reader, but for someone with a particular interest in the period (such as myself), it is invaluable.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a Bad Read for a Beginning Re-Enactor, 29 Oct 2007
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Not a bad effort. Some aspects are quite good but there are flaws (most notably in the section on bows). These I noticed due to an interest so I therefore dubious of the quality of other information provided by the primary author.

Still it gives a general view although strongly biased towards DA re-enactment in the UK, which is to be expected. It fails to address more recent advances in re-enactment historical combat and instead gives a general view of standard combat with no real genuine insights into the use. This is unfortunately particularly notable in the use of the shield where the reconstruction section give patently false information where the first part of the chapter was superlative. If this book has stuck to such at the first part of the shield chapter, it would have been a great work, but instead it is flawed.

All in all it is certainly better than buying an Osprey book, but be wary of inaccuracies that need to be cross-referenced which is not a bad habit for a re-enactor to get into anway.
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