An expert in medieval arms and armor assesses the accuracy of a battle scene from History's Vikings season 2 and finds it severely wanting.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The accuracy of Vikings has been called into question by a weapons expert. The series, which premiered on the History channel in 2013, is based on a variety of Norse sagas revolving around Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok and his descendants.
Vikings is a fantasy… There’s a lot of things to like about this show, and that makes it almost the more tragic for me… Those Anglo-Saxons are all wearing late 16th-century helmets. The burgonets with the high comb and the peak, they are 800 years wrong…The leather biker gear… There is almost no historical evidence for leather clothing. Almost across the board, people in the past did not make clothes out of leather, it’s a distinctly modern thing.
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