Few questions about Saxons /his/ (probably later period ones)

Are there not enough Bongs online atm to answer me?

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>>2437947
Neat pic.

>>2437947
id wager they painted their shields with traditional designs like knotwork and things like that

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>>2437947
>>2438123
Why is the saltire so aesthetic bros?

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>>2437947
>Did they paint their shields?
Yes, they did this because a wooden shield is weaker on the grain of the wood. The paint obscures the way the shield-wood looks so an enemy with a sword or ax won't know where the weak point of your shield is.
>designs
Yes, same reason, but then symbols were more obscuring and looked nicer than just dying the shield red with white stripes.
>uniforms
Mail was uniform, usually accompanied by leather of gambeson. But if you mean did they have standardized equipment, they hate an armor criteria, but they weren't mass producing a specific type of armor just for the housemen. So no, but incidentally they all wore the same armor because that armor was THE armor.
>Emblems
Sure, why not?
I don't know. Banners don't survive all that well, but I would think the association and the few records we have would be proof enough to support a type of standard standard unique to each kingdom.

>>2438248
>*had an armor criteria
>*leather or gambeson

>>2438250
>tfw no qt saxon warrior gf

Did Saxon women usually fight??

>>2438248
Specifically were house hold guards known to use the coat of arms of their patron/lord or was that a late-medieval thing?

>>2438317
of coarse not, men are biologically speaking more expendable, one guy can make a hundred kids with a hundred available women, one women can make one child with a hundred available men.