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Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.
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Viking expeditions (blue line): depicting the immense breadth of their voyages through most of Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Northern Africa, Asia Minor, the Arctic, and North America. Lower Normandy , depicted as a ″Viking territory in 911″, was not part of the lands granted by the king of the Franks to Rollo in 911, but Upper Normandy .
Ubba's name as it appears on folio 48v of British Library Harley 2278 (Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund): "Vbba " [1]. Ubba (Old Norse: Ubbi; died 878) was a 9th-century Viking and one of the commanders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded Anglo-Saxon England in the 860s.
Sultanate of Bagirmi horseman in full padded armour suit, 1901. Linothorax was a type of armour similar to gambeson, used by ancient Greeks. Meanwhile, the Mesoamericans were known to have used a kind of quilted textile armour called ichcahuipilli before the arrival of the conquistadors, who loaned this word as Spanish: escaupil.
It is now on display at the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Together with the Tjele helmet fragment , the Yarm helmet , the Lokrume helmet fragment , and a fragment from Kyiv , it is one of only five known Viking helmets, and one of only two capable of reconstruction.
British Viking in the well dock of HMS Bulwark Viking Mortar Section of RM Armoured Support Group in 2020 Queen's Royal Lancers in Helmand, 2008. The BvS10 ( Bandvagn Skyddad 10, also known as Bandvagn 410 or BV410 ) is a tracked articulated amphibious all-terrain armoured vehicle produced by BAE Systems Land Systems Hägglunds of Sweden. [ 1 ]