Excellent. I was personally torn between the wooden round shield and a metal kite shield (for durability and repair purposes), and ended up using a wooden round shield for 80% of my ultra realistic VR Rogue Dungeon-Crawling Experience.
I just figured they were oversized for ease of blocking in VR, but apparently not (red and white one in your photo as a reference), which means they were exceptionally good shields for the time period.
Depends on the era and the shield. There’s a good spread of sizes in the re-enactors here.
Generally though, yeah, Vikings wanted large shields to make sure everyone could cover one-another in a shield wall.
Excellent. I was personally torn between the wooden round shield and a metal kite shield (for durability and repair purposes), and ended up using a wooden round shield for 80% of my ultra realistic VR Rogue Dungeon-Crawling Experience.
I just figured they were oversized for ease of blocking in VR, but apparently not (red and white one in your photo as a reference), which means they were exceptionally good shields for the time period.