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Nathan F
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 Posted: Sat 31 Jan, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject: the vangarian guard |
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hello all
i want to gather togther a vangarian guard kit but im not sure what direction to go in with it. could anyone help with pictures of it and ideas of what kit they had
thanks
nathan
for here starts war carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl
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David Sutton
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'Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all'
'To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing'
Hypatia of Alexandria, c400AD
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David Huggins
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Nathan F
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any ideas what they were looking like during the crusade periods?
for here starts war carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl
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Grzegorz Kulig
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Location: Poland Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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Hi Nathan.
David already gave you a very good link. This web site includes very good and valuable information. For example this article:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/...elmets.htm
And a link from my wife: http://www.strangelove.net/~kieser/Russia/
We also recommend a book written by Polish archaeologist.
Władysław Duczko : "Viking Rus. Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe.
Maybe you should also search for this article by W. Duczko : "Byzantine Presence in Viking Age Sweden – Archaeological Finds and their Interpretation, [in:] Rom und Byzanz im Norden, Internationale Fachkonferenz, Kiel, 18-25 September 1994, Stuttgart 1997, ss. 291-311)
This subject has been discussed several times already, so maybe you should also search the forum a bit? 
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Bjorn Hagstrom
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A Period picture from the Skylitzes Chronicle (The guys on top are supposed to be Varangian guardsmen):
Contemporary Greek texts mention that they used axes, which distinguished them from other soldiers. Otherwise it would make sense that they sourced arms and armour locally. So a byzantine top-of-the-line soldiers kit with a dane-axe would in my opinion be very probable.
Then add beard and belly for a true scandinavian feel! They where also called "The emperors winebags" for some reason... 
There is nothing quite as sad as a one man conga-line...
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This is a standard topic