Whilst Norwegian Vikings first raided the ecu coast within the eighth century advert, their leaders have been from the center ranks of warriors often called hersirs. at the moment the hersir used to be commonly an autonomous landowner or neighborhood chieftain with apparatus more desirable to that of his fans. via the tip of the tenth century, the independence of the hersir was once long gone, and he used to be now a nearby servant of the Norwegian king. This e-book investigates those brutal, cellular warriors, and examines their strategies and psychology in warfare, dispelling the assumption of the Viking raider as easily a killing computer.
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