From: Joe Mills (mills@midohio.net)
Date: Thu 30 Nov 2000 - 21:35:52 EET
>Of course they train! What's this nonsense about an untrained fyrd? Ever
>heard of the classical Greek phalanx? ...
>All of them peasants with spears and shields! All
>of them trained... in tactics and the rest!
As far as I know (and I admit I'm not up on current scholarship), the only
requirement to stand in a hoplite phalanx was that you were able to afford
the equipment. The idea was that no peasants were allowed.
Joe
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