[Regia-NA] The shield wall

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/echoblue/Theshieldwall.htm

I ran across the above article online last week. Does it seem that the author is
perhaps assigning too much formality and discipline to the Viking Age shield
wall? Do you think the average 10th century army could effectively pull off the
different arrangements and layouts? I've always just seen the Viking Age shield
wall as a sort of positive side effect of warriors simply lining up to fight,
rather than the almost Hellenic formations and orders implied in the article.

Just curious

~Wil