Show here your Germanic warrior impression

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And Yeah pretty much every northern latitude culture I know of has incoporated fur into their wardrobe somehow....at least before agriculture......---john

Again, references, please.

The only way to properly reconstruct a Germanic tribesman in the winter is to take a bath in frozen river (or better - in the bog ;-) ) absolutely naked? .

The point is, that we have no clear evidence of the real dress of the various Germanic tribes. Even basic dress is guessed by the comparison to few bog deposits and few (questionable) roman sources. There is also no evidence that all the Germanic tribes wore tunic and trosers from Thorsberg (3rd century A.D.?) from the 3rd century B.C. to 4th (10th)A.D., but we all use the reconstructions of those clothes. All the "barbarian reenactment" is really barbarian: mostly a vision, more or less a "scientific guess".

There is also no clear, scientific way to know the spear point from that one of the javelin. The length of the shaft usually of can be only guessed. The size of the shield? No idea. Some sources suggest very large (Tacitus), some (several findings) suggest small.

Well, John quoted Tacitus, he is right, the use of furs is rather obvious. The problem is that we have simply no starting evidence. That's the point. It would be useful to talk a while of different possibilities ("Fur clothing the Northern Eurasia and Northern America"- a long, hard work with a little chance for success ). Just to have an idea of the problem. But it is clearly to early to start the substantial reconstruction.