The Vikings in the Balkans (Tenth to 11th Centuries). Strategic and Tactical Changes. New Archaeological Data on the Weaponry
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 321–327
Pub. online: 9 November 2007
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
14 December 2006
14 December 2006
Revised
22 May 2007
22 May 2007
Published
9 November 2007
9 November 2007
Abstract
For a long time the interest of many scholars has been focused on issues of the Viking (Varangian, Norman) presence in the Balkans. However, a series of strategic and tactical changes happened in warfare after the raids undertaken by the Russian-Varangian Knyaz (Prince) Sviatoslav in Bulgaria in the late tenth century AD. Therefore, special attention could be given to a series of new artefacts of north European (or Scandinavian) origin, which consists mainly of weapons and military equipment.