I guess it would be much easier for him to have his 'Anglo-Saxon' warriors as a horse culture than be exactly A-S - as he had put them a very long way from the sea...!
Coming from somewhere with a Celto-Viking history we only touched on the Anglo-Saxons in history lessons, that I remember. When I first read LotR I saw the Rohirrim as simply being horse-born Vikings.
Oddly, one of the things I remember about Anglo-Saxons is that they were very like the Vikings and that their basic war-bands were usually about 30 strong - much the same size as their basic boat crews.
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Coming from somewhere with a Celto-Viking history we only touched on the Anglo-Saxons in history lessons, that I remember. When I first read LotR I saw the Rohirrim as simply being horse-born Vikings.
Oddly, one of the things I remember about Anglo-Saxons is that they were very like the Vikings and that their basic war-bands were usually about 30 strong - much the same size as their basic boat crews.