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The Dark Age, Viking and Saxon Worlds

This period covers the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to the end of the Viking Age in 1066 AD at the battle of Stamford Bridge.

Overr this period you can portray a Romano-Britain, Migration-Period Warrior, a Viking or a Saxon among many others

Lower class warriors wore very little armour, if at all and were typically armed with a sheld, spear and dagger of some sort. Those who were lucky wore a light helmet on the head.

As you move up the social ladder, padded jackets, lamillar body armour and maille shirts (haubergeons) were worn. Weapons were mostly spears and axes although elite warriors carried swords.

At the end of this period we saw the beginning of the Norman Age and the start of the early Medieval Period. We begin to see the emergance of the knightly class who wore maille hauberks as their primary means of protection.