Indigenous Celtic & Gaelic Warfare and Weapons
Indigenous Celtic & Gaelic Warfare and Weapons Irish warfare was for centuries centered on the Ceithearn, or kern in English (and so pronounced in Gaelic), light skirmishing infantry who harried the enemy with missiles before charging. John Dymmok, serving under Elizabeth I’s lord-lieutenant of Ireland, described the kerns as: “… A kind of footman, slightly […]
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