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Viking shield are one of a kind & they could be much lighter than medieval shields .... from 4 pounds to 7 pounds.

Typical Medieval shields were kind of heavier ... ranging from 6 to 11 pounds.

Here we are talking of shields used in combat on foot. [Heater - Shields around 30'x18'

and Round-Shields around 26' ]

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....Because shields used by knights to break through were much bigger but useless in a Face-to-Face fight... they ranged from 10 to 15 pounds

They were meant to protect from arrows and to cover the whole body while approaching the enemy-lines. [ Big Kite-shields]

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