For nearly everyone, the right buy is a riveted spangenhelm or a one piece conical helm in 16 to 18 gauge mild steel, with a nasal...

A reenactor wants kit that fits the period he already portrays, and nothing else will do. Buy for the Viking age man and you are l...

A Viking axe has a thin, wide, light head on a long haft, built to cut fast at a shield wall. A later medieval axe has a thicker, ...

For most buyers the right Viking axe is a bearded head on a haft of about 19 to 24 inches, hand forged in carbon steel, with a lea...

A mace is a weighted head on a rigid shaft that beats through armour by impact. A war hammer concentrates that impact into a small...

The groomsmen gift that gets used is the one with a job. A folding knife rides in a pocket for years. A bearded axe comes out at t...

Buy the boring one first. A hand forged carbon steel single hander with a full tang, a fitted scabbard and a stand, somewhere in t...

Chainmail is a mesh of rings that stops cuts and passes the shock straight through to you. Plate is a shaped shell that turns near...

Put a Viking axe and a tomahawk side by side and most people can tell them apart at a glance. Ask which one to buy and it gets har...

Buy the round shield. For nearly everyone it is the right call: lighter, cheaper, easier to hang, and Norse to anyone who glances ...