So OK, I'm zooming from food to fighting - too much caffeine? Maybe, maybe not. Book #3 of The Vespers Trilogy, which is being written as we speak (or maybe an hour before we're speaking) has a new character called Arduin, who chooses to serve with the King's Assassin, and was a former Varangian guard. So I did some more research on the Varangian guards, the elite Byzantine warriors who were feared through the medieval world. Harald Hardrada, the greatest warrior of his time, served as a Varangian guard.
So I can't resist, one more time, another link. This is a medieval military website where there just happens to be an article about English warriors as part of the Varangian guard. Enjoy!!!
http://deremilitari.org/2014/06/english-refugees-in-the-byzantine-armed-forces-the-varangian-guard-and-anglo-saxon-ethnic-consciousness/
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