Gjallarhorn

In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse "yelling horn" or "the loud sounding horn") is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. This blog is to record the progress of a Viking / Saxon / Dark Ages campaign we are running.

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Gjallarhorn

Gjallarhorn
by Ajraan.

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The Nothelm Chronicle

  • The Nothelm Chronicle
    'Halfdan & the Vikings' - I've collected together a small set of connected games together called 'Halfdan & the Vikings'; these are set somewhere is Anglo-Saxon England. The ass...
    5 months ago

Dark Ages Blogs

  • Dark Age History
    Cuneglasus, Ursus and King Arthur - Cuneglasus,Ursus and King Arthur By Dane Pestano and contributing editor, Mak Wilson,1 © 2017. Composed in Sussex, England. Abstract The tyrant Cuneglasus ...
    8 years ago
  • Sea Kings and Horse Warriors
    The Last Kingdom and Sagas of the Northmen - THE LAST KINGDOM Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series features a Saxon born, Viking raised hero named Uhtred at the time of King Alfred. It has been a great se...
    9 years ago
  • The Tapestry- A Site Devoted to Saga by Gripping Beast and Studio Tomahawk
    AAR: Franks v Welsh in Champions of God - I managed to get a very quick game of SAGA in recently. Four points of Franks (all mounted) versus four points of Welsh Warriors. Four pieces of scenery we...
    10 years ago
  • Strandhogg
    History Channel Releasing New Series "Vikings" In March - I'm not a big fan of The History Channel mainly due to the lack of History. It's mainly become a reality TV channel with shows like Pawnstars, Axemen, Pi...
    12 years ago
  • Dark Ages Wargames Armies
    Dux Britanniarum - I was in Orc's Nest today and picked up the new *Dux Britanniarum *rules by the appallingly named *Too Fat Lardies*. They also had the new Osprey *Dux ...
    12 years ago

Blogs I Read

  • Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog
    Anvils of the Heldenhammer Lord-Veritant (with Gryph-Crow!) - Taking a break from Chaos things to do some Stormcast Eternals! Anvils of the Heldenhammer Lord-Veritant Shandra Moongheist with her trusty Gryph-Crow ...
    11 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Messing about on the Mississippi - I'm planning ahead for my autumn projects, which will kick off at the start of next month, including a 1/600th American Civil War riverine or coastal n...
    14 hours ago
  • Doctor Merkury's Lab
    1st time painting Zinnfiguren - I’ve always wanted to try my hand at painting flats also known as Zinnfiguren and bought a few to try for dioramas. This is the place that I ordered from...
    3 days ago
  • Tom's Toy Soldiers
    War of the Roses light horse - A unit in Clifford's colours for games of Midgard, NMtBH or Lion Rampant More very jolly Perry plastic miniatures
    3 days ago
  • iron mitten
    Future Desert War - Finally finished off this last printed building that's been hanging around for over a year. A nice big brush and some cheap craft paints and all done. I...
    3 days ago
  • BigLee's Miniature Adventures
    Should There Be Time Limits on Decision-Making in Tabletop Wargames? - If you’ve ever found yourself watching your opponent think through every possible move while the game grinds to a halt, this is a conversation you’ll wan...
    5 days ago
  • Tyneside Wargames Club
    Philadelphia spread - Today we had another AWI game at the club, and had a fun game, but did the Americans win this time? If you want to find out, please go to this LINK Enjo...
    6 days ago
  • Herkybirds nest
    Return to the attack - Today we returned to an old favourite, the American Revolution. I as usual commanded the Rebels/Patriots, while Lawrence ran the Hessians and Phil the L...
    6 days ago
  • the Man Cave
    Test Scorpion - Fun to get some paint on my first model in 10 months. It always amazes me how quickly hobby skills degrade! Also a bit of a shock to go from big chonky p...
    1 week ago
  • Cor blog me!
    Ruckus: St Elmo's Friar (Men-at-arms in motion) - For July's game we played a game of Here's the Ruckus, featuring our newly-painted figures (with FG completing six sergeant figures just the night before...
    2 weeks ago
  • SEEMS Wargames Club
    9th July Games - Numbers are down slightly due to holidays and Big Fat Greek Wedding invites (Hi Nick!), but we ran two games last night. The Steves played BattleTech wi...
    5 weeks ago
  • Carmen's fun painty time
    America's Cup boats - Well, these aren't exactly historically accurate but were inspired by 19th Century sail yachts/boats. They were fun to make, fun to paint, and look st...
    2 months ago
  • The Wargame Shed
    ¡Viva la muerte! Playtest - I have a decent collection of 28mm Spanish Civil War figures (and terrain) and have been wanting to get them to the table more. Unfortunately, I haven't...
    4 months ago
  • Daddy's Little Men
    Most of my collection now on sale - I've decided to drastically thin back my massive collection. Most of my Africa and Middle East miniatures will be posted in the coming weeks and there...
    5 months ago
  • Scrivsland
    Colonel Claude Runciman and Josefina Lacosta - I was suffering with "the Lurgy" this week but had a quick change from 6mm to 28mm. So I pulled out a couple of figures in the 28mm Napoleonic backlog t...
    6 months ago
  • Olicanalad's Games
    Beja completed! - This week I have finished the Beja contingent for the Mahdists - I've halved the Mahdist lead pile! It's not the end of painting Mahdists for a while lon...
    8 months ago
  • BigRedBatCave
    "Lust for Glory" at Colours - Here are a few shots of the first test game of the "horse and musket" rules I've been working on, tentatively named "Lust for Glory." This was the fir...
    10 months ago
  • Paul´s Bods
    New Fantasy sets from Alliance - I know, I havent been active for..???..a long time but I keep looking at what´s going on in the world of bods..and today I found these.....Apparently the...
    1 year ago
  • Der Feldmarschall
    The Cynical Seven - Desperados Gang - *"The liquor's all gone boys..."* Finished up my Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Just a few pics to share as I didn't get too many to turn out that ...
    4 years ago
  • Green Stuff and Brass with Some Guts Behind It
    Rental Motor Bangka Pangkalpinang - - [image: Rental Motor Bangka] - [image: Rental Motor Bangka] - [image: Rental Motor Bangka] -40% Rental Motor Bangka Rp. 150.000 Rp. 90.00...
    5 years ago
  • Four Colour Super Minis
    Spider Victims! - Victims of my (not so) Giant Spiders! The bodies were made with green stuff, and head off various plastic figures (cos I didn't want to have to sculpt fac...
    5 years ago
  • Deviant Designs Deeds
    2019 Final Score and 2020 Targets - A review of my plan for 2020 and a update on the 2019 plan Painting wise a very tough year with the study going upstairs, coming down, and now being used a...
    5 years ago
  • Vampifan's World of the Undead
    Vampifans Views 126 - Enforced Absence - On Friday December 20th, I was admitted to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, as an emergency patient, for an operation which resulted in me having my big ...
    5 years ago
  • The Angry Lurker
    15mm Savage Northmen Cavalry........ - *.....from the north and Copplestone Castings!* *Lots painted but blogging is becoming a little harder to achieve lately but anyway let's be getting on......
    5 years ago
  • Level 2
    Pulp Patrons - Supporting Cast. - A Pulp Hero is always in need of support, advice and indeed, an employer. Next up is a small selection of patrons, professors, allies and associates... ...
    5 years ago
  • The Clash of Spear on Shield
    Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots of redu...
    6 years ago
  • Legatus' Wargames Armies
    Paint Table Sunday and a Martian - It's Paint Table Easter Sunday and, thankfully, the family have gone down to Hampshire for the usual family Easter Egg Hunt, leaving me in peace. I cou...
    6 years ago
  • Four-Color Figures
    Dark Sun Dwarf - What seems like many moons ago, I sculpted a Dwarf that represented what I felt one from the D&D Dark Sun world would look like. It took awhile, but I thin...
    7 years ago
  • Stumpy Heaven
    Imperial Guard get their first run - Took what will eventually be my Cadian 317th Regiment "The Lost and Forlorn" out for their first game last night. Went up against a fun Genestealer cult l...
    7 years ago
  • On the Streets of Inconsequence
    A West Street Story - Once Upon a time there there were two gangs and they lived on the same street and they fought with bottle and club. As they grew up they moved out of town...
    7 years ago
  • Satrap Miniatures
    French Line Infantry - Here are two battalions of 1812 to 1815 French Line Infantry. The figures are all Perry Miniatures, a mix of plastic and metal and most of them...
    7 years ago
  • This Very Blog...
    Badab War: Mantis Warriors Terminators -
    8 years ago
  • Rebel Barracks
    Capture the women. - Recently we played a game set in the Dark ages. Rival claimants to the local throne met in battle with their followers beside them. The battle, to a large ...
    8 years ago
  • southern strategists
    The Battle of Stackville - The quiet town of Stackville was rather happy to stay quiet. But then the civil war came to town. Confederate troops stationed nearby the town found themse...
    8 years ago
  • Dux Homunculorum
    Character Figures and Settlers for the FIW - Conquest Miniatures put out a nice little blister of the main characters from the Last of the Mohicans, also released by Warlord Games. I had fun painti...
    8 years ago
  • Pushing Lead
    El Cid - Reconquista pt 8 - I have just finished up four bases of Skirmish bow. I have been busy with school - still - so I have not had too much time for painting. I am at least on t...
    9 years ago
  • The Repple Depple Club House
    Pimp my ride! - A while back I posted about the first of several LAV-25's I intend to build. That post can be found here. Now if you read yesterday's post (if not go and r...
    10 years ago
  • Cry havoc and let slip the toys of war
    Machiavelli summer 1457 - This turn saw a massive swing in fortunes. I had realised that my aggressive assault on Florence was going to make me a threat to my neighbours but I had...
    10 years ago
  • Surf Shack Gaming
    [1080p] Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) HD - Vollständige Film Guardians of the Galaxy Film streaming. Download Guardians of the Galaxy Vollständige Film HD Mit Dauer 122 Min Und Veröffentlicht am 20...
    10 years ago
  • The Grumpy Stunty
    Master Engineer [WIP] - In all the years I have been playing Dwarfs, this is one hero that I have never actually had a painted model for, or even used. I honestly don't know wh...
    10 years ago
  • Geektactica
    Legends of the Old West: Playing with New Objective Cards - Some of you might be familiar with the Secret Objective card system I developed for *Chaos in Carpathia*. I decided to try a similar (yet completely differ...
    11 years ago
  • Mongo's Wafflehouse
    Hail Mary .....of the LIVING DEAD!!!! - So I somehow managed to knock out another 60-something zombies before this baby arrives, nothing fancy here, I didn't even texture the bases. I figured I ...
    11 years ago
  • Laughing Ferret
    Happy Xmas & all the various holidays - Seems to be a new tradition that December runs over me, repeatedly, like a herd of reindeer on meth. What a month. So please excuse the pathetic trickle...
    11 years ago
  • Savage Timmy's Playhouse
    The Ambush - No game this week, but last week we played our third game in the new Tour of Darkness Campaign - I just never got around to typing up the report. Rick ...
    11 years ago
  • Tim's Wargaming Stuff
    US Airborne, Roads and some Tanks - I haven't posted in a while, how unusual I can hear you all say, well I have been busy. I've managed to get quite a lot done in between games of Bolt Acti...
    12 years ago
  • Musketeer Miniatures
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  • Level 2
    Pulp Patrons - Supporting Cast. - A Pulp Hero is always in need of support, advice and indeed, an employer. Next up is a small selection of patrons, professors, allies and associates... ...
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    7 years ago
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    The Walking Dead - 28mm style. - With the latest series about to start. Seems everyone has a Walking Dead model these days... Models by Mantic, Hasslefree, Studio Mina...
    8 years ago
  • A Project Too Far
    Bolt Action - "First Blood". - Some pics from a recent Bolt Action game played with my bro-in-law Jimsy. First time I had played (Jimsy had many games under his belt) so we started si...
    9 years ago
  • Gjallarhorn
    Lion Rampant test game - Angry Highlanders! - We managed to get a quick test game of Lion Rampant played at the first of our monthly 'Friday Night Firefight' at Wayland Games. Chris (the only one t...
    10 years ago
  • Hard Times of Old England
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    13 years ago

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