It is being reported that Tollense is now being considered as a possible massacre of a trading caravan rather than a battle site.
Which I had suggested to friends as a possibility when the thing first hit the headlines. I'm beginning to regret letting "wiser heads" persuade me I was wrong :)
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59912
"Lances"? I don't think so.
Would lancea, albeit a little anachronistic, or even λόγχη suit sir better? :)
Wow.
Its a robbery!
Must have been worth millions in todays money.
Greatly. But, as the writings of Dr Johnson so well demonstrate, English is not Latin.
No, it is infinitely superior.
We agree for once. :o
I thought we'd pretty much agreed that, for the great mass of people, a pointy stick is a pointy stick, whatever it's length, and that therefore, with the honourable exception of a tiny minority of the nerdiest MilHist nerds, people consider all words describing a pointy stick as interchangeable?
If you'd grown up in South Africa like me and seen what a primitive and undisciplined lingo like Afrikaans does to people's minds, you'd be more grateful to English for what it offers you!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 November 2020, 03:59:53 AM
"Lances"? I don't think so.
LOL - that was my first thought as well! It immediately made me suspicious. I suspect many ancient battles would contain the bodies of large numbers of non-combatants. In many cases, these were nomadic tribes moving together in a group.