05-31-2009, 06:18 AM
It is not so easy to run with a heavy spear held "overhand", and I expect that it is quite likely that the charge was carried out "underarm", just as described here, and that the shift to overhand ocurred in the last second or so before the clash....... 
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"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
