Viking Shields Large Round Wooden Shield’s were used in Battle by the Vikings; they were also used as stretchers to carry the wounded off the battlefield. A shield was generally 32-36 inches across and was held in the center on the back and the hand was protected by an iron boss. The shield boss is a domed circle about 6 inches across mounted on the front of the shield. Bouche Shield The Bouche shield is a shield that is to be used with a lance, normally while jousting. Ther

Apparently a sidhe (shee) is the portal to the Otherworld. Gnoc is the word for "a hill" and can be a sidhe hill or a regular dirt hill. If you would like to know more about Gnocs and the Sidhe take a look at these sites: http://celticsociety.freeservers.com/sidhe.html http://www.csun.edu/~hceng029/yeats/funaro.html http://celticanamcara.blogspot.com/2010/03/aos-si-kings-and-queens-of-fairies.html http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali222.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Basically in [1363 a toilet is] a hole through the floor of the castle going into a deep shaft to a cave. Step by step it got less gross than that--though most of those ideas were developed elsewhere and eventually spread to Ireland rather than developing there. At one point the idea was to have rooms with holes hanging over the moat. Eventually this led to open sewers--basically storm drains, and then with running water and pressurized pipes, actual honest to goodness closed