My first Saga warband update 13/05/14

[racm32]

they look great, would love to put my Normans up against them. What are you planing to play them as?

[Hu Rhu]

Most Excellent Figures!!   If you are still thinking about a name for your Warlord you could do worse than read "The Longships" by Frans G. Bengtsson.  It has a host of viking names including the protaganist Red Orme named after the colour of his hair and later his temper!!.  Other favourites of mine include Styrborn the Strong and Harald Bluetooth and Harald Blackhair.

[Jeff965]

Thank you Hu RHu, Orm seems very popular as a name as its the name of the hero in a recent book I read called "The Whale Road". I will have to look at the book you mention before deciding.
Racm, thank you for your kind comment, they are Jomsvikings and they have their own battle board in one of the Saga army books.

Jeff

[moonshado]

My favourite norse name has to be Ragnar Hairy Breeks and among his sons is my second favourite - Ivar the Boneless.

[Garanhir]

A great-looking bunch, these.

Actually, this thread (particularly the bit about names) has stirred a half-remembered recollection, and maybe the lovely folks here at LAF could help me to jump-start my brain. I remember reading a book about thirty years ago when I was a young lad.  It was about a viking voyage, in a ship called the Nameless.  It started with a father and son waiting for someone to arrive at the edge of a forest.  I remember trouble at the launching of the ship as the lord running the whole show refused a human sacrifice for the ship (but someone got their leg stuck on the slipway and it got blood  in any case)  I remember a big fellow called "Doorback", and a nithing with a knife, and at some point they collected a monk called John.

In the end they're all dead but the son, or so I think.

And that's about all I remember.  Now it's nagging at me and I can't leave it alone; It'll drive me nuts first.

[Little Odo]

I am really dredging the memory banks here as I read a book with those exact same incidents when I was very young (about 40 years ago). I think it was Henry Treece's "Viking Saga" - a three part tale (well, a saga I guess) of a young viking's life - Viking Dawn, The Road to Miklagard (sp.), Viking Sunset. Not sure if this is right but it may be a place to start your search? Now that has made me want to dig that series out of the library again and re-read it.

[Jeff965]

Little Odo, you can buy it on amazon for a penny plus postage.

Jeff

[Mister Rab]

And it's great! I loved those as a kid 

[Garanhir]

That's it! That's the one!

So there was a trilogy, hm?

[Mister Rab]

Yup, they end up as part of the Varangian guard in Byzantium for a while, in the second book, but I don't remember the third very well.

[Little Odo]

Little Odo, you can buy it on amazon for a penny plus postage.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff

[Jeff965]

The second Saga point, another four elite warriors. I'm still thinking of a name for my Warlord probably going to go with something from HBO's new series. Anyway hope you like them, I've shown a back and front view this time and a shot of them all together so far.

Jeff

[Jeff965]

Oooops and the one all together.

[Mason]

Lovely new additions to the warband, Jeff.
 

Seeing these makes me even more eager to start my own.
 

[Romark]

Excellent additions Jeff,easily up to the standard of your first bunch,keep up the good work,will look forward to the next batch.