Shale wrote on Jul 6
th, 2016 at 11:02pm:
Yeah we tend to forget about the armour side of things.
One of the disciplines The Vikings train is is using a sling with gauntlets on. So once you've run out of ammo, or the enemies charging at you, you can swith over to axe or spear or sword.
They've come up with a great technique of just wrapping the sling round your hand and tucking the end in, saves messing about and lets you grab your weapon quicker and also redeploy the sling very quickly if you get to the point where you can satrt slinging again.
As re-enactors they can't actually take part in weapons combat unless they're wearing their armour. makes sense.
And obviously from a histoprical point of view it would have been a similiar situation.