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Originally Posted by S&Wshooter
Oh, so they aren't apprentice-fucking warriors who would get crushed if they encountered Vikings?
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First off, there's no concrete proof backing up the "apprentice-fucking", as you so eloquently put it.
As far as getting "crushed" by Vikings goes, the Spartan army was long gone by the time Viking expansion started. The earliest recorded Viking raids occurred in the late 7th Century AD, whereas Sparta ceased to be an independent power around 800 years
earlier when they were forced into the Achaean League in 146 BC after a disastrous defeat by a combined Achaean/Macedonian force.
The final recorded military action by the Spartans was after the Roman defeat at Adrianople in 378 AD when a Spartan phalanx met and
defeated a force of raiding Visigoths.
So, no, the Spartans were never crushed by the Vikings.