Few questions about Saxons Veeky Forums (probably later period ones)
Did they paint their shields?
If they did paint their shields what designs did they paint on them?
Did they attempts to create uniform designs on their shields, especially for the higher-tier Thanes/hearth guard?
Did hearth guard/warriors have standardized clothing colours (proto-uniforms?) or were they free to put whatever they wanted?
Did Saxon Kingdoms actually use the emblems we associate with them as flags or even on their shields (St Albans cross, Dragon of Wessex etc)? Pic kind related
General Saxon thread I guess
Luis King
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Landon Reed
Are there not enough Bongs online atm to answer me?
Landon Cooper
Neat pic.
Benjamin Myers
id wager they painted their shields with traditional designs like knotwork and things like that
Alexander Gonzalez
Why is the saltire so aesthetic bros?
Ethan Edwards
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Jordan Howard
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Jacob Richardson
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Cooper Walker
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Bentley Martin
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Jason Jackson
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Jackson Kelly
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Kevin Edwards
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Christian Campbell
>Did they paint their shields? Yes, they did this because a wooden shield is weaker on the grain of the wood. The paint obscures the way the shield-wood looks so an enemy with a sword or ax won't know where the weak point of your shield is. >designs Yes, same reason, but then symbols were more obscuring and looked nicer than just dying the shield red with white stripes. >uniforms Mail was uniform, usually accompanied by leather of gambeson. But if you mean did they have standardized equipment, they hate an armor criteria, but they weren't mass producing a specific type of armor just for the housemen. So no, but incidentally they all wore the same armor because that armor was THE armor. >Emblems Sure, why not? I don't know. Banners don't survive all that well, but I would think the association and the few records we have would be proof enough to support a type of standard standard unique to each kingdom.
Owen Long
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Michael Scott
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Dominic Rodriguez
>*had an armor criteria >*leather or gambeson
Mason Hill
>tfw no qt saxon warrior gf
Did Saxon women usually fight??
Dylan King
Specifically were house hold guards known to use the coat of arms of their patron/lord or was that a late-medieval thing?
Dylan Davis
of coarse not, men are biologically speaking more expendable, one guy can make a hundred kids with a hundred available women, one women can make one child with a hundred available men.
