So warriors will be wearing scale mail armor made from bronze. We have remains of these horn helms, with most being made from bronze. Many men also wore a type of horned helm. Most men were depicted was carrying a form of half crescent round shield, with most shield likely being faced with either rawhide or other softer metals like copper.
While it took great skill to be highly accurate with the sling, it also only needed one hand to be used, giving the user the advantage of retaining his shield.īased on the contents of the Warrior Vase, Mycenaean Soldiers could have potentially worn pretty solid amounts of armor. A sling could effective lob a stone fast enough to break bone and tear flesh at close range and cause severe bruising at longer ranges. The short sling: A simple and common ranged weapon. While long slings had ranged exceeding 400 yards, short slings had ranged closer to 25 to 75 yards. The heads were leaf shaped, made from bronze and socketed. While the spears exact length is itself unknown, we know they were generally paired with a shield, makings its likely length somewhere in the ball park of 6 feet. Norse spear: A simple but effective thrusting spear. The sword was double edge and was made from bronze. Having a blade closer to 60 cms, the sword had a straight blade with a leaf shaped swell near the end, makings its thrusting abilities a bit less effective, but increasing its chopping power. Norse straight sword: A simple but effective sword designed for mainly for cutting. The Norse Bronze age lasted until 500 BCE, were they had finally fully crossed over to Iron tools. Despite this they were a fairly advanced bronze aged people in the ways of war, often having large amounts on intertribal war and war with other cultures of Germanics. Being a barbaric people, they lacked a centralized government to share, being more of a cultural/religious group the a specific dead set united people. They lived in what is now called Scandinavian, with most living primarily within a region near what is now Denmark. While effective, the weapon required two hands to use, meaning a warrior couldn't use his shield with the bow.īeing one of the earlier established groups of early Norse culture, the Norsemen of Norse bronze age were themselves not much different from many of the Germanic Barbarians living at the time. The bow could lob an arrow with enough force to kill and man and even pierce armor at close range. Averaging a draw weight of 50-60 pounds and had a verying range, though I'm going with 100 yard for the sake of simplicity. While saying the exact specifics of these bows is kinda impossible, they likely had a poundage and range similar to later bows from the same area. Recurve bow: A useful and deadly long ranged weapon.
The head were leaf shaped, made from bronze and socketed. While exact shaft lengths are unknown, the men in the Warrior Vase appear to be carrying spears which were a bit taller then the men carrying them, putting them somewhere in the ball park of 6 feet. Mycenaean spear: A simple but effective thrusting spear. The weapon was double edged and made from bronze. This increases the swords thrusting ability sharping, but this was in exchange for the swords cutting power. Having a blade around 60 cms, the blade had a wider with a strong profile taper ending in an acute point. Mycenaean straight sword: A simple and effective sword best suited for thrusting blows.
They fell under unknown means, with many different answers to how they fell having been put forwards, though it is still offically unknown (I personally say it was probably drought, but thats just me). They were a warlike people, often battling the more primitive peoples to the north and west, the men of the Anatolian coast, and at times even the Hittite empire. Being a time of rare unification for the usually quite divided peoples of ancient greece, the Mycenaeans lived roughly in between 1600-1100 BCE. I will do my best to get some info from that vase and compare it too some of the actual armor worn at the time which we have archaeological remains of.īeing the likely time and place were many of the Greek myths came about, Mycenaean Greece was a from of ancient Hellan golden age. For the armor section of the Mycenaeans, I will be taking inspiration from this the semi well known "Warrior Vase" (Link below). The specific source on these two groups, I am basing it primarily off of a mix of artistic and archaeological sources. When I saw Norse warrior, I am specifically referring to the Norse from the Norse bronze age (1700-500 BCE). I am aware that using the term 'Norse warrior" in this battle is fairly nebulous since the Norse acted as warriors for thousands of years.
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