Viking Weapons and Warfare

Viking Weapons and Warfare.

Kim Siddorn. 

Paperback. 192p, 36 col pls, 108 b/w figs and pls (Tempus 2000, rev edn 2003)

With a passion for re-enactment and an unwavering fascination with the Vikings, Kim Siddorn writes an engaging description of the Viking warrior. Through personal experience and experiments Siddorn discusses weapons and their use, the warrior's appearance, psychology, their tactics and strategy, tribute, command and leadership. This highly readable account includes many reconstruction drawings and photographs from battle re-enactments. In this new edition the text has been expanded to include new chapters on missiles and axes, with additional contributions to these and other chapters by Peter Beatson, Jonathan Smith, Roland Williamson and Ben Levick, plus extra illustrations.