Dark Ages — Anabasis

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The Dark Ages (or Early Medieval)

Viking hirdmen form up in a ‘svinfylking’ somewhere in the Danelaw of East Anglia, 917 AD.

South of Mälaren, 936. Hirdmen of a powerful jarl settles a blood feud with a rivaling family.

Berserkers charge out of a shieldwall. North of Ghent, County of Flanders, 879 AD.

Jarl Gorm realises the day is lost and sounds the retreat as his wounded warriors leave the field of battle. Somewhere in Vendland, 922 AD.

A Viking shieldwall prepare to meet their Anglo-Saxon foes on the field of battle. Kingdom of Mercia, 892 AD.

A strandhogg gone wrong as pagan raiders from Dublin are ambushed by local forces. Anglesey, Kingdom of Gwynedd, 863 AD.

Raiders from the Kingdom of Powys attack into the neighboring Kingdom of Mercia. The Welsh border, 794 AD.

A young priest urges the warriors on as they skirmish with men from a rival kingdom. Somewhere on the border between Powys and Gwynedd, 1011 AD.

The Llu form up in a shieldwall and prepare to meet the enemy’s charge. Gwent, close to the river Severn, 1063 AD.