01-23-2015, 02:50 PM | #61 | |
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Re: Charlemagne's Paladins - roleplaying in the 8th century
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01-23-2015, 02:53 PM | #62 |
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Re: Charlemagne's Paladins - roleplaying in the 8th century
We've already done this. There isn't any. The only lamellar found in Scandinavia during the time in question is at Birka. It has been shown that the armour was Central Asian or Tibetan in style, that there were a lot of other foreign items found in the same area of the site, and that there were a lot of foreigners at Birka at the time. The logical conclusion is that this armour was not worn by a Scandinavian. There are no physical remains of viking lamellar, no descriptions in the texts, and no illustrations. How do you build a hypothesis without evidence?
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01-23-2015, 03:01 PM | #63 | |
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I didn´t say they did, must or such i wrote it was possible
Correct me if i´m wrong, the varangians/vikings traded with the bycanteans, they traveled to the mediterrean , fought in their armies, in a Special Corps. The bycanteans in this time produced lamellar armour, is it therefore absolutly impossible that one or more of These varangians or vikings got a lamellar armour? Trade, Loot, booty, I think this would be very implausible
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01-23-2015, 03:04 PM | #64 | |
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01-23-2015, 05:38 PM | #65 | |
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01-23-2015, 05:58 PM | #66 |
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I would use his real-life bishops as a paladin corps. They even had the "convert or die" attitude when they moved into a recently conquered region.
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01-24-2015, 02:02 AM | #68 |
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Sword-dancer, please take it to PM. This is not the proper thread for epistemology, interesting as that may be.
I read somewhere that Carolingian knights were really mounted heavy infantry, using their horses to get around on the battlefield but fighting on foot. Does anyone know if this is true?
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01-24-2015, 04:31 AM | #69 |
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The relevant texts, such as the chansons, suggest that they charged with mounted lances.
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01-24-2015, 05:39 AM | #70 |
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Aren't they from the chivalric era, though? I find it hard to believe that they were going for historical accuracy. Besides, they didn't get war saddles until they had taken the Avar fortress, did they?
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