360° VIDEO: VIKING AND SLAV REENACTORS FACE OFF ... makeshift burial mound by placing their wood and iron war shields over their slain comrades. Reenactors in Poland don armor in preparation ...

Some chieftains wore mail coats, made of thousands of metal rings but most relied on a round wooden shield for protection ... But it was not long before larger Viking armies attacked ...

Please verify your email address. As a shield, the Wooden Shield is used for defense. It can only be wielded either on its own or in conjunction with light one-handed melee weapons. All shields ...

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near Tvååker in southern Sweden. It turned into so much more, as archaeologists ...

Rollo yells] Tyr Neilsen: Rollo's using a Viking battle-ax ... Sometimes they hid the ax behind the shield. So, as you grip the shield here, you can hold the ax and the shield handle here ...

The Vikings were one of the most dominant forces in Western Europe from the 9th until the 11th centuries. They were able to ...

The festival includes wooden bowls being turned on a Viking lathe, organisers said Meanwhile ... and beating their shields, really gets your heart pumping." The festival is funded by York ...

Only two years after Brooke Shields sold her Pacific Palisades home ... fir hardwood floors and a gourmet kitchen fitted with Viking appliances and marble countertops. A standout feature is ...

Please verify your email address. As a shield, the Old Wooden Shield is used for defense. It can only be wielded either on its own or in conjunction with light one-handed melee weapons.

This would protect the wooden haft from any attack ... If the ax head gets stuck in the shield, it can be used against you. I have a Viking battle-ax, also called a Dane ax.