Anglo saxon

ANGLO-SAXON QUEEN, from the pagan period (6th century), bearing a ceremonial drinking horn, based on a passage from the epic poem “Beowulf” in which queen Wealhtheow serves mead to the Danish king Hrothgar, the Geatish hero Beowulf and his warriors before they fight the monster Grendel. THE ANGLO-SAXONS: In the 5th century, the Western Roman Empire was collapsing. The year 410, the Germanic Visigoths sacked the city of Rome. In 455, the Vandals, another Germanic people that had formed a…

http://i.imgur.com/obzbOyn.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/DJfQF7T.png http://i.imgur.com/hDXoAbl.png It's a cosmetic overhaul of the saxon faction (include also all the viking units), no stats has been modified. It doesn't need the DLCs and there is a version without the levy women. The goal of this mod is not being 100% historically accurate. It is historically accurate but not necessarily in the same era as Attila, one century at farthest, like in the retail game.

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ANGLO-SAXON THEGN (aristocratic retainer of a king), from the time of transition from paganism to Christianism (7th century). This thegn wears the Benty Grange helmet (the modern replica used in this painting was made by Æd Thompson from the reenactment group Thegns of Mercia https://www.thegns.org/ , who are also the owners of the shield appliques), a helmet entirely made of horn plaques that completely cover an inner iron skeleton, and richly decorated with embossed silver foil and a…