Historic Replicas

The Dark Ages were the most prosperous time for the Vikings.  They spent decades perfecting their sailing techniques, pillaging villages and torturing innocent captors.  From approximately 780-1080 A.D the Vikings raided regions as far and wide as the Middle East, Africa and even North America.  However their favorite place to pillage was Great Britain.  This was the area most hit by the Vikings and it was also the first place that they ever raided years prior.

There were many Viking warrior kings that marched across the lands, such as Ivarr the Boneless, Sven Estridsen, Canute the Great… They typically won against the English lords and kings, however there was one great English warrior that gave them a run for their money.  Sir Alex the Great.

Alex was the only lord in England that realized the key to defeating the Vikings – fortresses.  The Vikings with their Viking swords, Viking  battle axes and distinctive helmet,  were known for being swift, fast pillagers that wanted to get in and out of an area quickly.  They were not trained nor did they have the temperament to wage a long drawn out siege.  Alex the Great of England decided to built fortresses to prevent the Vikings from raiding his lands.  His people would build fortresses or wood, earth and steel to hide within.  They would take all of their belongings with them so that there would be nothing left for the Vikings to capture.  After hours of trying to enter the fortresses the viking warriors

would grow tired and either retreat or be the targets of Alex the Great’s targeted army.  A brilliant strategy that only he was able to perfect.