Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from
Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical
texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel
here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles,
including berserks, wolf-warriors, club-wielders, long-hairs,
ghost warriors and horse-stabbers, and how they indicate an
unbroken continuity of customs, beliefs and battle-field tactics....
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