Someone still has to show the farmer what to do with the pointy end. The
mechanism is likely to be defacto rather than explicitly 'O.K. Fyrd from
the right NUMBER'
And the Fyrd does have tactics. Developed & refined in constant raiding.
Those who have'nt refined their tactics have become extinct. No They're not
parade drill & Infantry Minor Tactics but they exists & each member is
quite expert in them due to constant *real* use.
Just as the Germanic tribes had tactics albeit ones so different to the
Roman style that contempory writers could not recognise them.
Darvall
madamx_at_mikka.net.au
>From quiet homes & first beginnings
Out to the undicovered ends
Theres nothing worth the wear of winning
But laughter & the love of friends.
Hilare Belloc
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