... army will almost always carry the day against amateurs. This suggests that there must have been some kind of permanent warrior group. This would not be a professional standing army in the sense of say the Roman legions but it would have been a group of people who's lives were permanently focused around military expeditions. Maintaining such a group would have been, however, a considerable economic burden and ... amongst historians but there seems to be agreement that there was a group of people who pledged loyalty and service to a lord or the king personally in return for food and prote...

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