Thank you all for this discussion. Very inspiring, nothing like different points of view! Yes it would have taken time to forge new weapons. ( btw I studied the Llyn Cerrig Bach swords which were very long and very high quality weapons, dated to ca 60 AD - I 'll dig out my report some time) .
@ Renatus: the battle of Culloden was the last known occasion when the Scottish clan leaders recited their lineage before the battle. (Source: Alistair Moffat) Something which could well have happened in 60 AD?
Doesn't Caesar also write somewhere that families came along to a battle and literally boxed the fighting men in so they would not be tempted to run?
One could think of the Spartan mother telling her son to come back with his shield or on it...
@ Renatus: the battle of Culloden was the last known occasion when the Scottish clan leaders recited their lineage before the battle. (Source: Alistair Moffat) Something which could well have happened in 60 AD?
Doesn't Caesar also write somewhere that families came along to a battle and literally boxed the fighting men in so they would not be tempted to run?
One could think of the Spartan mother telling her son to come back with his shield or on it...
