The Danes and the Vikings in the Carolangian State

del brook says the scandinavians in this period are in a warrior society military level of development. In those kinds of societies it's pretty much every free man is a soldier and when you show up to the battlefield everybody brings their own weapons and their own armor, he writes. The francs should be able to crush these people in scandinavia in this period according to del brook. hundred thousand people in this era maybe less so the francs weren't able to do that.