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Is there any evidence of naval ramming in the 9th and 10th century North Sea?
In Bernard Cornwell's 'Sword of the Kings', his main character uses the tactic of ramming to sink an enemy ship before engaging in hand-to-hand combat with surviving ships which get leashed together. ...
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What was the relationship between Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; and the Vikings? [closed]
I'm reading Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf and I cannot get my head around how Angles, Saxons, and Jutes relate to the Geats, Danes, and/or the Vikings and/or the Scandinavians generally.
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