Viking / Saxon Tester
John, Graeme (and Craig for a bit) were members of Regia Anglorum, a mediaeval reenactment society where we cosplayed as viking peasants. We made our own authentic, ill-fitting tunics and trousers from itchy woolen blankets, “Cornish Pastie” shoes out of leather, and spent every other weekend beating the shit out of each other with blunted spears and scramseaxes.
Occasionally we’d do public displays and had to memorize basic Old Norse words to do with battle, this educational tool was an effort by John and I to memorize as much of it as we could. In hindsight, the only thing I remember is phalanx-esque march of “TROTHA… OI!”
