Note 436 — Chapter XXXII · SOME EXPEDITIONS AND DEEDS OF GREAT VIKINGS. (Continued.)

In Snorri the twenty horsemen are described thus: “Twenty horsemen of the Thingmannalid rode up in front of the array of the Northmen. They were armoured all over and also their horses. Then a horseman said: ‘Is Tosti jarl here in the host?’” (Snorri Sturluson, Harald Hardradi’s Saga, c. 9.)

From this we see that the English, like their kinsmen, had horsemen; and the finds of spurs, &c., prove this.