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.

Pages

  • Home
  • The Saga of Jarl Ragnar of Ulvik.
  • The Saga of Jarl Erland.

The Saga of Jarl Ragnar of Ulvik.



The Battle of Ulvik Fjord.

The Battle at Arlesford Creek. (Part One)

The Battle at Arlesford Creek. (Part Two)

The Skirmish at Thorringhall Wood.

The Battle of Deadlane Grove.

******************************************************
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

No comments:

Post a Comment

Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Gjallarhorn

Gjallarhorn
by Ajraan.

Miniatures Companies

  • Artizan Designs
  • Black Cat Bases
  • Black Tree Design
  • Crusader Miniatures
  • Dixon Miniatures
  • Eureka Miniatures
  • Gripping Beast
  • Redoubt Enterprises
  • The Norse Army Showcase
  • Wargames Foundry
  • Warlord Games

SEEMS Wargames Club

SEEMS Wargames Club
South East Essex Military Society.

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...
    6 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 ...
    13 years ago

Blogs I Read

  • Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog
    Dreadblade Harrows - I picked up some previously owned Dreadblade Harrows from Fenris Workshop a month or so ago. These were one of two units I needed to finish up the new Ni...
    14 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Bulldogs Away! Relaunched - With the demise of A&A Game Engineering due to retirement, David Manley of Long Face Games has begun the process of moving his titles over to Wargame Va...
    14 hours ago
  • iron mitten
    Elven King of Mirkwood -
    14 hours ago
  • BigLee's Miniature Adventures
    Revisiting The Battle of Hal (A YouTube Short) - The now infamous Battle of Hal started as a simple What-If engagement. What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo, could the allies have held him at Wellington...
    16 hours ago
  • the Man Cave
    Lest We Forget - 80 years of Peace - 80 years ago this week WW2 came to an end, having delivered damage, death and destruction at a scale previously unimaginable. To commemorate I visited th...
    1 day ago
  • Doctor Merkury's Lab
    28mm 1982 Beirut PLO and civilians - A common occurrence in the Lebanese Civil War was the factor of civilians trying to go about their daily life in the midst of the conflict. This caused a...
    1 day ago
  • Cor blog me!
    Printable Scenery Country Low Walls - With our recent focus on 28mm skirmish wargaming, I wanted to add a set of low stone walls to my terrain collection. I wanted something that would work ...
    3 days ago
  • Tom's Toy Soldiers
    Chain of Command 2 First Game - I had lots of good games with Chain of Command, many of them with General Ballroom. In fact I was rather surprised that a second edition was coming out - I...
    3 days ago
  • Rebel Barracks
    War of Spanish Succession scenarios. - Recently I came across this scenario book. Battles of the War of Spanish Succession. It has been writen with Volley & Bayonet rules in mind but cou...
    5 days ago
  • Tyneside Wargames Club
    First time out for some new tanks! - Today we had a fun game of 'What a Tanker' at our club, using Churchills against a rather heavier German force than we usually face! If you want to see ...
    6 days ago
  • Herkybirds nest
    Churchill on the attack? - Today we had a game of 'What a Tanker' at the club. I had finished 3 more tanks this week, and decided to use them against an equal points of Germans. W...
    6 days 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...
    1 month 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...
    5 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...
    6 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...
    11 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... ...
    6 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
  • 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
    -
Show 10 Show All

My Other Blogs

  • 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... ...
    6 years ago
  • "By the Orders of the Great White Queen"
    Congo Game -
    6 years ago
  • Alley's of Distraction
    How to Start a Revolution - This is Chris, he will be my opponent this chilly morn at Cavalier 2018 in Tonbridge. For this morning he represents Texas, a place he has once visited and...
    7 years ago
  • The Dead Hate The Living
    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
    Imperial War Museum. - Made a quick visit to the Imperial War Museum in London on Monday. Very informative and interesting day out. Took a few (not particularly good) pictures an...
    13 years ago

Wargaming Tradecraft

Followers

Contributors

  • Robafett
  • wardy-la

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2017 (2)
    • ▼  March (1)
      • Blood Eagle - First Warband.
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2015 (2)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2013 (4)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
  • ►  2012 (22)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (2)
  • ►  2011 (27)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (12)

Labels

  • 4ground (1)
  • Aldir (1)
  • Alresford Creek (4)
  • Anglo-Danes (7)
  • Animals (2)
  • Artizan (3)
  • Asgard (1)
  • Barbarian (1)
  • Battle Report (7)
  • Bergelmir the Mountain Yeller (4)
  • Berserkers (1)
  • Big Bergthor (2)
  • Black Tree Design (6)
  • Blood Eagle (2)
  • Bondi (1)
  • Brother Cuthbert (2)
  • Brother Thomas (10)
  • Campaign (2)
  • Citadel (13)
  • Conquest Games (1)
  • Crusader (6)
  • Deadlane Grove (1)
  • Dreamholme (1)
  • Dvergar (1)
  • Ealdorman Aescwulf (3)
  • Ealdorman Torel (1)
  • Ealdorman Tunberht (1)
  • Fantascene (2)
  • Folkmar (1)
  • Foundry (18)
  • Frost Giant (4)
  • Giants (5)
  • Grand Manner (1)
  • Grendel (4)
  • Grim (1)
  • Gripping Beast (18)
  • Hæimkæll (1)
  • Hill Giant (1)
  • Hovels (1)
  • Irregular Miniatures (1)
  • Jarl Brak (1)
  • Jorund Redbeard (1)
  • Lady Angarad (1)
  • Lion Rampant (2)
  • Longship (2)
  • Monks (3)
  • Mountain Giant (1)
  • Musketeer Miniatures (1)
  • Mystery Figure (2)
  • Otherworld Miniatures (1)
  • Otrygg (1)
  • Pig Wars (1)
  • Products for Wargamers (1)
  • Ragnar (6)
  • Ral Partha (3)
  • Reaper Miniatures (3)
  • Redoubt Enterprises (2)
  • Renedra (1)
  • Rules (13)
  • Rurik the Restless (6)
  • SAGA (10)
  • Salute (1)
  • Saxons (21)
  • Scenarios (5)
  • Skeggi (1)
  • Sonja (2)
  • Strandhogg (4)
  • Terrain (2)
  • Thorir (1)
  • Thorringhall Wood (1)
  • Thorrington (1)
  • Thoruiv (1)
  • Timeline (1)
  • Trent Miniatures (4)
  • Ulfhednar (1)
  • Ulvik Fjord (1)
  • Vikings (35)
  • Villagers (7)
  • Workbench Update (13)
Watermark theme. Powered by Blogger.