Timo Nieminen wrote: | ||
What am I trying to refute? From the text of Maldon, they threw spears, and they used them as hand-to-hand weapons. Don't cherry-pick; read the whole thing. Don't ignore the many cases of spears being used as hand-to-hand weapons rather than throwing weapons! (Lines 77, 124 (using spears in the shield wall), 138, 226, 262, 296 (spears in the shield wall again), 322 (probably).) |
I didn't cherry-pick, never said spears were just throwing weapons. Spears were used in every rank except the front in the poem, which has Brythnoth and his gesithas drawing their swords. Have you read the poem?