02-14-2010, 04:59 PM
I suppose you're right. Probably McBride was trying to picture Germanic warriors at their "sunday best." And it's interesting about those Germanic combs. The Santana De Mures/Cernjachov culture (which Heather & Matthews insist is not Germanic-influenced) had regular comb production facilities-- factories-- at least 15 are known. Perhaps they were fashioned by Klingons. :wink:
McBride's work could give us an idea of the Germanic influences in late Roman Britain. The only nit-pick I have with his later work: the warriors-soldiers become STUBBY and THICK. The artist who illustrated The Sarmatians gave us more anatomically realistic subjects, and Christina Hook has done good work for Ospray; in Late Roman Cavalry, I think. What we do not have are illustrations of late Celtic-Britonic warriors in the sub-Roman period other than the 1980s book you've mentioned.
McBride's work could give us an idea of the Germanic influences in late Roman Britain. The only nit-pick I have with his later work: the warriors-soldiers become STUBBY and THICK. The artist who illustrated The Sarmatians gave us more anatomically realistic subjects, and Christina Hook has done good work for Ospray; in Late Roman Cavalry, I think. What we do not have are illustrations of late Celtic-Britonic warriors in the sub-Roman period other than the 1980s book you've mentioned.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb