I'm getting closer to the wood-carved stuff. This beautie is found in a bout dated to 350 - 500 ad:
http://www.mangerkulturen.com/mangerkul ... fallos.jpg

If you're talking viking-age; I don't know of any statues, but I know that wooden figures with falloses on have been found in Norway from earlier times (viking-age) Pretty straight to the point. I'll see if I can find link to examples: ...OK, I didn't find the wooden dicks, but I found this article ...

How would a pagan norseman be accepted in predominantly Christian settlements? Especially if he prominantly displayed his "old faith". Do we know how tolerant the Bishoprics were to pagans? Dave No We know that kings could be quite violent promoters of the new faith, but we don't hear much about Bh...

Here are woodcarvings from the Osebergship (not all from the ship itself): http://images.google.no/images?hl=nn&q=+site:www.arild-hauge.com+Oseberg Here's the best pic. i could find of the ship's prow: http://whs.eanes.k12.tx.us/art/Smaller%20Site/images/Art%20History/Chapter%2011/pages/Oseberg%20sh...

I'm doing WMA because I'm curious on how it was done

Best technique vs a samurai.... So many factors... What kind of armor will you use? What kind of weapon(s) will you use? How to define who wins? (scoring points, to the death, first blood or tap out?) How big is this samurai? How many years has he been training? How strong is he? How acustomed is he...

Actually most viking axes can be used to thrust with, and probably were; this could go all the way back to bronze age

Don't know when spikes were attached at the tip of the shaft, Dont know of any such finds in norway

Search for Oseberg tapestries for contemplary pictures of vikings

When in silly modus me and some friends do talk about doing re-enactment of earlier re-enactment-groups, and as tonights training got canseled, and all I exersise is my keypad-fingers instead of my Fiore muscles... do anybody actually do this? Think about the late 19th century pictures of vikings, g...

Some of the Icelandic sagas were written as late as the 13th and 14th century. -Not that they're bad or somthing, just my point of wiew on the matter which probably allso is off topic :roll: You just got to know that a lot (often all) of the equipment and some of the social life reflect the 13th-ea...

Well, I wear baggypants and orange-linen tunica as a viking. I am aware that the colour of my tunica might not have been possible to produce with the vikings technology, etc; etc. While I in principle belong to your (Endre's) camp in this discussion (and allways read your posts with interrest, as th...

So, on that note: Fact: "Harvesting" animals for food generates skins as a byproduct. Fact: Skins can be made into leather. Fact: Leather is a wonderous substance that can be used for many things, and has been used so, for millenia, by any culture that makes it. Fact: Even today, with our wonderous...

Einar tries it, but states: "Too weak is the King's bow". Thats a sweet line if ever I heard one...I havnt yet started reading that one...I have a bunch I bought off Amazon...still trying to get through Laxdaela Saga, Saga of the Jomsvikings and the Volsung Saga, and I havnt even opened Heimskringl...

A book I've read about viking tactics and viking warfare(by an english author, don't remember his name or the name of the book), claimed that battles and engagements were usually missile engagements that could escalate into a grand melee. His argument was that when you charge into an enemy, it's ver...

That's all fine, but I doubt the Spanish were inferior to the natives; the ships back then were pretty small, the Atlantic pretty big, and the time it took getting control of the major powers in Sout America pretty short. If we were to "invade" Mars, with our transport-capassity and the distance; I ...

link to Tuneskipet

http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viking/tuneskipet.htm

I'm not going to comment on stuff I really don't know about. The arguments against moving them is: *they might get damaged *the museum itself is unike the arguments for is *they probably won't get damaged *the museum is too bad to preserve the items on display *the museum is too small *the new museu...

Oak is very hard but heavy. It is also very often very bent and crooked. Ash grows very straight, is allmost as dureable as oak and half the weight. It is allso very common -at least in souther Norway. Remember that southern "Vikingland" have an allmost central european climate; whereas the northern...

Perhaps the IDF saw this film:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=reC_1BabKwQ
I both roleplay and LARP, but this movie is just fantastic. You know, despite what you say... some larpers are like this

Nobody can prove anything. Yes, there have been several continental stuff found in Norway from all time periods. In Viking age, there are frankish swords, in Renissanse, we find china, and in Modern days we find BMW and Mercedes.... -so not finding roman equipment among the Aegdi, Rygi, Raumareiki (...

I've read (ironically, I cannot remember where :roll: ; I think it was on a Norwegian forum) -that the reason for the theory of vikings with helebards, is that several islandic sagas were translated from norse(/islandic) into danish by national-romantics during the 17th, 18th and 19th century, and t...

I read through some of that "No Shield...." and there are several things that I feel could be vastly improved upon. I guess I just have a hard time with anyone not sticking to the manuals. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1891448161/ref=wl_it_dp/102-3675973-7409703?%5Fencoding=UTF8&col...

Swords that break with what seems to be the norm surfaces from time to time. A swordfind from around the year 0 in norway shows a La-Tene sword (small pommel, v-shaped crossguard) with a 18 cm long grip. (The blade is around 80 cm) Petersen writes that the grips (on vikingswords) averridges in at ar...