A quest for the atgeir: the unknown Viking weapon in Icelandic sagas and archaeological data
Today we know much about the culture of the Viking Age, but there are still gaps to fill. One of them is what the legendary weapon called atgeirr in Icelandic sagas really was. Nowadays researchers prefer to view atgeir as a kind of spear. But the defining features of atgeir are not clearly describe...
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Bern Open Publishing
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Acta Periodica Duellatorum |
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