Rollo yells] Tyr Neilsen: Rollo's using a Viking battle-ax. You can turn ... Sometimes they hid the ax behind the shield. So, as you grip the shield here, you can hold the ax and the shield ...

The Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons, fought on foot (not horseback) and in battle formed a ‘shield-wall’ where they locked together side-by-side, shields in front, and pushed their enemy back ...

Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off in a mock battle during a festival ... mound by placing their wood and iron war shields over their slain comrades.

“It’s extremely rare to find coins in Viking burials, and so far as I know, none have ever been found in a shield boss.” Ystgaard points out that Vikings were known to travel as far as ...