Vendel Era/Pre-Viking Scandinavians?

[Atheling]

While I wait for my order from Gripping Beast I have some Saxon Miniatures vikings in the lead pile — at least half shouldn't need any conversion work to bring them 'back in time', so I'll get started on them right away and hopefully have something painted to show in the next week or two. Watch this space!

Excellent. 

[Paul Richardson]

Eureka do a Beowulf and retinue set of figures in their Dark Ages range which you might find interesting.

[Atheling]

Eureka do a Beowulf and retinue set of figures in their Dark Ages range which you might find interesting.

A very good point, I'd forgotten about them. There's a Eureka UK site too if that's easier to order from(?).

[pallard]

I would watch closely the future releases of Aventine Miniatures' Early Byzantine range, in the form of Lombards, Gepids and Heruls as some may well be useful to your project. Yes pleae, let us know how it evolves. Very interesting.
Philippe

[Byrthnoth]

Those Eureka Beowulf figures are quite nice -- I think they'll be part of phase two of the project if/when I decide to go in a more fantastic direction.

Philippe, good tip on Aventine Miniatures -- the early Byzantines are very nice.

[Erik]

Hello Byrthnoth
If you are looking for warriors from 6th and 7th century Scandinavia the burial site Nørre Sandegård Vest on the island of Bornholm is the place to go. It’s the only Danish burial site with weapon graves from that period.

You can read about it in more detail here: Jørgensen, L.   & Nørgård Jørgensen, A: Nørre Sandegård Vest.  A Cemetery from the 6th-8th Centuries om Bornholm. Nordiske Fortidsminder , Serie B, vol 14.  København 1997.

For a broader Scandinavian picture you can take: Jørgensen, Anne Nørgård: Regional Studies of the Weapon Burial Practice in Scandinavia, 530-800 AD. Medieval Europe vol. 4 York 1992.

These are archaeological texts, but they are in English, and they cover your periode.

Hope you find it usefull.

Cheers
Erik

[Byrthnoth]

Hi Erik, those are great resources! For anyone interested, the Jørgensen and Nørgård Jørgensen book is available on academia.edu in its entirety. I’ve found myself with so much reading material for this project that I might not have time to paint anything!

[Atheling]

I’ve found myself with so much reading material for this project that I might not have time to paint anything!

  Welcome aboard!