Timeline for What weapons would be used to kill giants by a viking era civilization?
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| May 27, 2020 at 10:04 | comment | added | Redbud201 | Reply to "ksbes". Not sure where you're getting that idea. Higher status weapons like swords were relatively rare and expensive, and iron was not as plentiful as in later periods, but the vikings made fairly good quality swords for the time period. Ulfbert swords were well known for their quality, in fact. While it may not be as good as late medieval swords, they were good for the time. Also, even with short trees, spears of 9 to 10 feet should be no problem. The average battlefield spear was 6 -8 feet. | |
| May 25, 2020 at 10:14 | comment | added | ksbes | Vikings spears were very crude and short. Vikings had bad metallurgy and lack of good large trees. Creating a real late-medieval polearm in 8-9 century would be like creating AKs during WWI - only prototypes and very small number can be made, but not mass-production. | |
| May 25, 2020 at 5:14 | comment | added | vsz | They already used a shield wall, so a pike square isn't something too difficult to come up with. :) | |
| May 24, 2020 at 5:24 | history | answered | Mr. Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |