Preview of some viking unit's

[skeletor]

@ King Ragnar
As you can see, the shield on the Viking spearman is big. This unit is ment to form the bulk of the viking Sjoldborg/Shieldwall. The landsmann on the other hand, who is an offencive shock unit, has a smaller shield to be more agile.

The vikings used pretty large shields. I have seen some of them in museums, and most of them were 80-90cm wide. (some eaven bigger)

If you compare the size of the spearman's shield to hes body, it's about half hes hight. The average hight of a western man is about 180cm, so that makes the diametre of the shield about 90 cm.

EDIT: Oh, you wrote "on the archer" , it's the same size as that of the birk. spear, and smaller then most of the ithers, it's just that the archer on the pic is posed a bit crumbled (see legs) making the shield look relative bigger..

Cheers!
-Skel-