Nordic Bronze Age Army List?
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:21 am
To the Great Powers, I prostrate myself and make humble plea....is there room in this panoply of hosts for a Nordic Bronze Age army list, covering say 1500/1700 BC to 500/700 BC.
By my reading, the Hallstat/La Tene lists are more central/southern/western European and definitely iron age, the Urnfield Culture was European south of the Baltic, and the Pre-Viking Scandinavian list doesn't start until 450 AD. From what I've been able to Google, there seems to be good archaeology for the region and period and we know it was an active period militarily with a heroic culture often compared to that of Mycenae. Battles were between small clan/family groups, sometimes joined to do Viking-style raiding and there was apparently frequent conflict over control of the Amber trade routes from Scandinavia into central Europe, as illustrated by the large finds at Tollense. And at the start of the period, you had significant northward migration into the Region from Europe and at end of the period you started to see climate-induced tribal migrations into central Europe. I'm no expert, but am interested in the period and geographic region, and would love to field a army of early Northern barbarian heroes in Vikso helmets. Wiki offers this introduction to the period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age
And a couple of articles that caught my eye:
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-br ... gs/1698522
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowled ... ronze-age/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 9X19302470
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... ode=rdja20
By my reading, the Hallstat/La Tene lists are more central/southern/western European and definitely iron age, the Urnfield Culture was European south of the Baltic, and the Pre-Viking Scandinavian list doesn't start until 450 AD. From what I've been able to Google, there seems to be good archaeology for the region and period and we know it was an active period militarily with a heroic culture often compared to that of Mycenae. Battles were between small clan/family groups, sometimes joined to do Viking-style raiding and there was apparently frequent conflict over control of the Amber trade routes from Scandinavia into central Europe, as illustrated by the large finds at Tollense. And at the start of the period, you had significant northward migration into the Region from Europe and at end of the period you started to see climate-induced tribal migrations into central Europe. I'm no expert, but am interested in the period and geographic region, and would love to field a army of early Northern barbarian heroes in Vikso helmets. Wiki offers this introduction to the period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age
And a couple of articles that caught my eye:
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-br ... gs/1698522
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowled ... ronze-age/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 9X19302470
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... ode=rdja20