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08 Sep 2019 10:46 p.m. PST
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Gunfreak  | 08 Sep 2019 1:28 p.m. PST |
Reading this book. link In 200AD, some 750 soldier, 100 sub officers and 12 officers died in a battle in Denmark. If we assume 50% casualtiy rate the original force would fit well with a roman auxiliary force.
The dead were clad in Roman equipment and used Roman weapons. It's assumed the force was on it's way back home from service in the roman army. We even know the name of some of them as had scratched their name on their equipment. I didn't know Scandinavians served in Roman forces on mass like that. |
| Frederick | 08 Sep 2019 3:19 p.m. PST |
Well, given that the Vikings are the lineal ancestors of the Kievan Rus (and hence blue eyes and blond haired Ukrainians) nothing is impossible In fact – given that my mom's family are Ukrainians – maybe you and I are cousins! |
| nevals | 08 Sep 2019 3:21 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the tip about the book. It's my birthday and I received 50$ gift card from my brother, now I know how am I going to splurge it. |
| bsrlee | 09 Sep 2019 3:20 a.m. PST |
The place is called 'Illerup Adal' – there are several serious books on the excavated material, which was deposited on several occasions, not all in one big heap. |
| Gunfreak | 09 Sep 2019 7:31 a.m. PST |
The book seems very good.
It's as far as you can come from any glorification of the Norse people.
I seems norse culture was far less democratic than I previously thought.
With a classic elite vs the nome elite system. |
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finally paints the first of his Gauls...