{"id":34093,"date":"2020-04-23T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=34093"},"modified":"2020-04-23T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:58:09","slug":"the-viking-onslaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/the-viking-onslaught\/","title":{"rendered":"The Viking Onslaught"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Big fan of this guy&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/\">Weapons and Warfare.<\/a> When you have some free time (like now) be sure to read through his selections.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2020\/04\/23\/the-viking-onslaught\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/04\/who-were-the-franks.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=info&amp;w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Anglo-Saxons commonly called them \u2018Danes\u2019 or \u2018heathens\u2019. To the Franks, they were simply \u2018the Northmen\u2019. But history knows them as the Vikings, possibly derived from the West Norse word vikingr, meaning \u2018one who fights at sea\u2019 or viking, \u2018warfare at sea\u2019. Perhaps it was merely because many of the original Norse raiders of the\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2020\/04\/23\/the-viking-onslaught\/\">The Viking Onslaught \u2014 Weapons and Warfare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big fan of this guy&#8217;s blog, Weapons and Warfare. When you have some free time (like now) be sure to read through his selections. The Anglo-Saxons commonly called them \u2018Danes\u2019 or \u2018heathens\u2019. To the Franks, they were simply \u2018the Northmen\u2019. But history knows them as the Vikings, possibly derived from the West Norse word vikingr,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,476,477,6096],"tags":[7964],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}