> What's this nonsense about training the fyrd?
> The fyrd doesn't training. It assembles when necessary.
> Nobody tries to train it: not weaponthanes, not the chief.
> Whatever next? fyrd tactics?
>
> The fyrd is farmers with spears and shields.
"A well-trained fyrd being necessary for the security of a free tribe, the right of the Heortlings to keep & bear Humakt, Elmal, Babeester and Arran, shall not be infringed."
Second article of the so-called "Bill of Limitations" that the people of Dragon Pass extracted from king Argrath the Liberticide on Orlanth'High Holy Day 1691.
Of course they train! What's this nonsense about an untrained fyrd? Ever heard of the classical Greek phalanx? The English yeoman? The American minuteman? The old Switzers? The Swiss army? The British Territorial Army? The U.S. National Guard? All of them peasants with spears and shields! All of them trained... in tactics and the rest!
Fyrdmen Cow-Ring Wilfriedson a.k.a sdt EFA Christoph Kohring, cp EFA III/8, bat fus mont 8, rgt inf mont 5, div mont 10, CA Mont 3, Forces terrestres de l'armée Suisse. http://www.armee.ch
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