05-29-2010, 03:03 AM
It would seem that checks etc did exist among the German tribes, as one might expect ( there are surviving examples of cloaks etc) - See "Ancient Warfare" magazine Special Issue 2009, 'The Varian Disaster' for this and some excellent reconstructions of Germanic warriors......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
