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1,000-Strong Army Defeated in Denmark May Have Been Marching to Serve Rome
A dramatic reinterpretation of the Illerup Ådal battlefield is reshaping what we know about Iron Age Europe. New research suggests that a 1,000-strong Scandinavian army defeated in Denmark around AD 205 may not have been a local force at all—but a mobile warband possibly heading south to serve the Roman Empire as mercenaries. The theory,…