When Byzantine Emperor Heraclius challenged the Sassanid Commander to a duel in the Battle of Nineveh, defeated him, and challenged & killed 2 Persian Knights who tried to avenge their commander.
Dude they started the tradition of Single Combat, which permeated Roman ranks (who traditionally didn't do that) after Byzzies hired Armenian Cavalry in their armies.
>Dude they started the tradition of Single Combat,
Single combat as a tradition existed in Tribal Latin, Celtic, Germanic and Berber cultures without any interaction with the Persians. It wasn't unique at all.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I meant the tradition of Single Combat in early medieval Middle East/Rome
Romans abandoned single combat in battle sometime in the EMpire, but Persian shenanigans brought them back, this time with extra chivalry thanks to the influence of Persian Savaran who were the Knights of their time.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Romans abandoned single combat in battle sometime in the EMpire
They never did. The Bellator was the greatest thing a Roman could be, there a a few accounts of Roman soldiers engaging in single combat during the israeli wars and into the third century stemming from their own culture. Caracalla and Gallienus were two prominent examples of Emperors taking up the dueling Bellator as a point of legitimacy and both lived up to it. They never gave it up.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>berber
Source ?
I meant the tradition of Single Combat in early medieval Middle East/Rome
Romans abandoned single combat in battle sometime in the EMpire, but Persian shenanigans brought them back, this time with extra chivalry thanks to the influence of Persian Savaran who were the Knights of their time.
Dude they started the tradition of Single Combat, which permeated Roman ranks (who traditionally didn't do that) after Byzzies hired Armenian Cavalry in their armies.
But anyway
It seems that germanics, romans and arabs were far more effective at this than persians for exemple
Bro
Romans, germanics and celts were doing duels way before persians
Look at spolia opima
>Dude they started the tradition of Single Combat,
Single combat as a tradition existed in Tribal Latin, Celtic, Germanic and Berber cultures without any interaction with the Persians. It wasn't unique at all.
This
It wasnt them who started the tradition, in fact its very far from them
Am I the only one who is irritated that this fictional king from a fictional world full of dragons and ice-zombies has fricking antlers on his helmet just to embody his house-mascot and it's a fricking miracle he never ended up breaking his own neck accidentally swinging his own war-hammer into them?
Also how the frick would you wield the warhammer with just 1 hand it makes no sense. GoT in general just, makes absolutely no sense at all.
I guess thats more for dramatic effect on this picture because in lore it's well known he used a two handed hammer and the antlers werent as big
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There's way dumber shit than this to shit on this franchise and you focus on this?
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The Starks are a lineage that goes back 800 years afawk (could be to the first men) and yet the whole thing reduces to just 3 heirs? Karstarks alone could claim Winterfell, there should be like at least 10 houses trying as well just by blood relation
The battle of the 30 in the 100 years war.
me vs OP
i won btw
Why do you lie ?
I beated you
Peugeot vs Mayer during the Battle of Joncherey
General Washington vs the entire British American Expeditionary force
>Washington won
>not facing army in frontline
Because "American" are cowards.
When Byzantine Emperor Heraclius challenged the Sassanid Commander to a duel in the Battle of Nineveh, defeated him, and challenged & killed 2 Persian Knights who tried to avenge their commander.
Persians cant fight
Dude they started the tradition of Single Combat, which permeated Roman ranks (who traditionally didn't do that) after Byzzies hired Armenian Cavalry in their armies.
>Dude they started the tradition of Single Combat,
Single combat as a tradition existed in Tribal Latin, Celtic, Germanic and Berber cultures without any interaction with the Persians. It wasn't unique at all.
I meant the tradition of Single Combat in early medieval Middle East/Rome
Romans abandoned single combat in battle sometime in the EMpire, but Persian shenanigans brought them back, this time with extra chivalry thanks to the influence of Persian Savaran who were the Knights of their time.
>Romans abandoned single combat in battle sometime in the EMpire
They never did. The Bellator was the greatest thing a Roman could be, there a a few accounts of Roman soldiers engaging in single combat during the israeli wars and into the third century stemming from their own culture. Caracalla and Gallienus were two prominent examples of Emperors taking up the dueling Bellator as a point of legitimacy and both lived up to it. They never gave it up.
>berber
Source ?
But anyway
It seems that germanics, romans and arabs were far more effective at this than persians for exemple
Bro
Romans, germanics and celts were doing duels way before persians
Look at spolia opima
This
It wasnt them who started the tradition, in fact its very far from them
Am I the only one who is irritated that this fictional king from a fictional world full of dragons and ice-zombies has fricking antlers on his helmet just to embody his house-mascot and it's a fricking miracle he never ended up breaking his own neck accidentally swinging his own war-hammer into them?
Also how the frick would you wield the warhammer with just 1 hand it makes no sense. GoT in general just, makes absolutely no sense at all.
I guess thats more for dramatic effect on this picture because in lore it's well known he used a two handed hammer and the antlers werent as big
Like
There's way dumber shit than this to shit on this franchise and you focus on this?
Like
The Starks are a lineage that goes back 800 years afawk (could be to the first men) and yet the whole thing reduces to just 3 heirs? Karstarks alone could claim Winterfell, there should be like at least 10 houses trying as well just by blood relation
Thankyou for proving our point that nobody needs to watch or waste time with this shit, Anon
For me, it was Ernst Udet versus Georges Guynemer during World War one. One of the few times when real chivalry could be claimed.