12-01-2010, 07:39 PM
I was a Viking today, but eventually got snowed off. Then I went and had some fun.
This is on Fulford battlefield, 1066 and all that. But the idea was to be a Varangian, but rather than a member of the Emperor’s axe bearing guard this man is probably part of a band contracted for a set period like those brought to Byzantium by Harold Sigurdson.
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This is on Fulford battlefield, 1066 and all that. But the idea was to be a Varangian, but rather than a member of the Emperor’s axe bearing guard this man is probably part of a band contracted for a set period like those brought to Byzantium by Harold Sigurdson.
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John Conyard
York
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York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.comitatus.net">http://www.comitatus.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com">http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com