Dan Snow
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first heard Dec 2024
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A metal helmet, well that could be carried, and fastened into position at the last minute.
No Viking helmet, I need to say this, has ever been found with horns, folks.
That's a myth.
These ones would look like helmets, frankly, worn by anyone else in this period.
They'd have had metal eyes and nose protection perhaps, but no horns.
And off ran those Vikings to try and save their king.
That king knew how to fight.
He knew how to win.
And
He also knew how to die in a way that would preserve his reputation.
In the end, Hadrada would not hide behind that shield wall all day waiting to be rescued.
At some point it seems that he made a decision.
He would go out in a way that ensured that men still talked of him in millennia to come.
Disdaining a shield he grabbed his sword in both hands and made a frenzied personal attack on the enemy.
He carved a furrow through the English army.
So usually I always think Hollywood history gets an essential thing wrong about these kind of battles.
Movies tend to show individuals lashing about themselves to right and left, rather than the more visually boring but probably realistic sort of rugby scrum of a shield wall.
Two lines of men packed together so tight they can hardly raise a hand.
Pushing, shoving, spitting, cursing, the odd little stabbing motion, until one side sort of cracks.
But on this occasion the greatest warrior in Europe, a giant of a man.
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