How was steel made in the Middle Ages? What were medieval churches made out of? What are Roman mosaics made of? How did the Merovingian and Carolingian rulers dress? How was the Carolingian Renaissance started? How were Viking shields constructed?
While Viking women were taught to fight, this was to protect their homes while the men were off at war. If they did appear on the battlefield, it would have been as back up forces, rather than in positions of power. Historically, women like Lagertha would have been exceptional. Shields ...
Built of weapons and armor, Valhalla was the promised land of a Viking warrior. The Poetic Edda, a collection of myths and heroic stories written in 13th-century Iceland, depicts Valhalla’s dramatic construction: “spear-shafts the building has for rafters, it’s roofed with shields, mail-...
While the term Viking is used in a general way to describe the people of Scandinavia during the medieval period, it's really a name for a profession -- it's like if we called all Spanish or French peoplePirates. The Scandinavians were also explorers, farmers, fishermen and merchants -- ...
If there were more capable tools in NINA (where I could make image adjustments similar to Sharpcap while live-stacking), I'd be much more interested in trying NINA as a single app that could do it all. #8 ghilios Viking 1 Posts:660 ...
masks protect against the virus. At home, the scientists began to compile close-up images and measure various attributes of their fabric samples—metrics such as porosity, thread count, thread thickness and composition—to help the team ...
The Skrill is a medium-sized Strike Class dragon that was first mentioned in How to Train Your Dragon and first appeared in Book of Dragons. Some pieces of concept art for the Skrill depict the dragon with shorter wings, sharper spines, and a heavier bui
Then we were off home. On the sewing front, I made this outfit from some sale fabric from Northern Monkey Makes here in the North East of England. Me in the sunshine. So I managed 83 miles this week which I am pleased with.
[The vikings fire their catapults, but the rocks bounce off the Red Death's skin like they were nothing. He then crushes the catapults as if they were made of matchsticks.] Viking #3: Get to the ships! Stoick: No! NO! [But it's too late. The Red Death realizes where their ...
Filmed in Iceland and Northern Ireland,The Northmanlooks and feels like ninth-century Scandinavia. From the king's royal hall and the massive ships to the carts and even the shields, pretty much every set piece and prop is based on an authentic Viking artifact. The on-screen behavior of the...