Lecture on Viking Age Combat and Strategy
Photo: Jacob Nyborg Andreassen.
Combat Archaeology will have the pleasure of giving a lecture Viking Age combat (in Danish) at the National Museum of Denmark as part of their early morning lecture series, Historical Mornings (Danish: Historiske Morgener).
The lecture will be presented in two parts by Combat Archaeology members, Jacob Nyborg Andreassen (cand.mag., curator at Trelleborg Museum) and Rolf Fabricius Warming (cand.mag., MA, archaeologist).
Jacob Nyborg Andreassen will address the overall fighting and conquest strategies of the Viking Age Scandinavians. Rolf Fabricius Warming will discuss their combat techniques and tactics in relation to this based on new analyses of shield finds, historical sources and experimental archaeology. The lecture will be supplemented by practical demonstrations of concepts and techniques by Combat Archaeology members, Lars Lind (chief instructor of Historical Weapons Combat) and Andreas Hansen (instructor in Historical Weapons Combat).
More information (in Danish)
Tickets will be available soon from the National Museum of Denmark and can be bought through the following link
Historiske Stjernestunder: Vikinger i kamp
Sword & Buckler Event at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
Rolf Warming
Rolf is the founder of the Society for Combat Archaeology (SoCA). He holds an MA degree in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton and another MA degree in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Copenhagen. His studies have preeminently been on the subject of combat and conflict in the past, ranging from Mesolithic violence to organized state formation in the Renaissance. He has achieved the rank of sergeant in the Royal Danish Army. In addition to this, Rolf is the chief instructor of Weapons Combat Systems, a weaponry-based martial art which he teaches on both a national and international level through classes, seminars, etc.
