07-27-2009, 03:50 PM
I noticed one thing in this video at 8:38:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81Oc0-j ... r_embedded
The Germanic warrior hold the javelins vertical, which means that it didn't had an horizontal handle, would be impossible to otherwise hold the javelins and the shield! And this while it is oval in shape. I've always heard that Germanic shield handles would be horizontal like Roman shields but I'm not so sure of that, Vikings are ther descendents and they had a vertical handle as well, true they used round shield but still.
hock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81Oc0-j ... r_embedded
The Germanic warrior hold the javelins vertical, which means that it didn't had an horizontal handle, would be impossible to otherwise hold the javelins and the shield! And this while it is oval in shape. I've always heard that Germanic shield handles would be horizontal like Roman shields but I'm not so sure of that, Vikings are ther descendents and they had a vertical handle as well, true they used round shield but still.
hock:
"Go and tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." -Thermopylae
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