Summary: You’re probably gathering from last week that warfare is becoming a great deal more common. We had that great early era where a lot of what we were dealing with seemed mostly like farmers occasionally getting into spats that got out of control, with a few exceptions. But now we have these Werods running around, and we have the sons of Ida fighting with their neighbors, and the southern kingdoms fighting with their neighbors... Sure, your average anglo saxon will still be a farmer. But now the Chroniclers are telling us of more and more of these conflicts between kingdoms. Something to keep in mind is how different life in Britain was from life on the Continent. In Frankia, it seems like outright battle was generally avoided unless there was no other option and instead raiding and other non-conventional forms of warfare were employed. But in Britain, there’s a surprisingly regular amount of battles, especially when we get fully into the Heptarchy.
