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Viking tactics were unconventional by wider European standards at the time and this element of "otherness" brought with it a tactical advantage. They also attacked holy sites far more regularly than Frankish and other Christian armies did, [56] and they never arranged battle times. Deceit, stealth, and ruthlessness were not seen as cowardly. [57]
The assembled Viking army on the Thames departed in 879 to begin new campaigns on the continent. [55] [56] In 892, the army that had encamped on Fulham, now comprising 250 ships, had returned and re-established itself in Appledore, Kent. [57] Another army of 80 ships soon afterwards also encamped in Milton Regis, posing a threat to the West ...
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.
The raiding continued on and off until the 860s, when instead of raiding the Vikings changed their tactics and sent a great army to invade England. This army was described by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a "Great Heathen Army". [13] The Danes were eventually defeated by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington in 878.
The army marched up before the fortified Viking camp named in one source as Ascloha (Asselt in the Annales Fuldenses, 882). [19] Another contemporary source, however, refers to Haslon as the place of negotiation, which is often equated with Elsloo an der Maas ( Regino of Prüm , Chronica , 882, specifically mentioned in the entry for the year 881).
Sketch of the Svinfylking. The Svinfylking, Old Norse for "swine array" or "boar snout", [1] was a formation used in battle. Related to the wedge formation, it was used in Iron Age Scandinavia and later by the Vikings. [2]
A shield wall (scieldweall or bordweall in Old English, skjaldborg in Old Norse) is a military formation that was common in ancient and medieval warfare. There were many slight variations of this formation, but the common factor was soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder and holding their shields so that they would abut or overlap.
Strandhogg in old Norse was a Viking tactic consisting of a coastal raid with the intention of capturing livestock and indigenous peoples for the slave trade. [1] [2] This tactic was enhanced by Viking longships' shallow draft. [3] The Vikings had already developed spy networks from their many commercial encounters with vicus. These spies ...
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