Just a recommendation to members here that the Uthred book is really good.
Focusses on the reign of :-
937 AD
A combined invasion of Vikings, Welsh and Scots is crushed by Aethelstan at Brunanburh (no one knows where this was).
marvellous
martin :)
What, there's a big battle and "foreign" people get killed, with Englaland and the Sais triumphant?
That's a shocker, I'll probably not bother reading the rest of the book then...
Simon ;D
I am on to the new Jack Reacher now. Hope he kills the bad guys? Saddened that i have now finished all six series of JUSTIFIED.
martin :)
Quote from: martin goddard on November 04, 2020, 10:13:57 PM
937 AD
A combined invasion of Vikings, Welsh and Scots is crushed by Aethelstan at Brunanburh (no one knows where this was).
Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone had produced a set of figures and a suitably elegant ruleset for this intriguing period of history...? ;)
Simon
That man would be genius Simon.
Some chap on TMP was extolling a new range of Western figures for 2020. His praise was that they were the first company ever to do the same figure mounted and on foot. Gosh, great idea.
martin :)
Even better to do a casualty of that same figure too? That really would be novel... ::)
Simon
There is some pretty compelling circumstantial and "logical" evidence that Brunanburgh is likely to be Bromborough on the Wirral, mainly based on the Mersey providing a good landing site for a Viking fleet and its proximity to Wales. The fighting may have taken place in the Dibbin valley. Then again, I'm biased as I lived in the Dibbin valley up to the age of 10.
Andy