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Nicnak044's coyote girl dressed as an Irish Kern, part of a set of drawings I did of Nicnak044's and 
foxjump's characters inspired by their trip to Ireland a couple months ago and I felt like dressing their characters up as different warriors from medieval Ireland!
A Kern was a Gaelic soldier, specifically a light infantryman in Ireland during the Middle Ages. Kerns notably accompanied bands of the mercenary Gallóglaigh as their light infantry forces, where the Gallowglass filled the need for heavy infantry. Kerns were light troops who relied on speed and mobility, often utilising lightning strike tactics as a force-multiplier to engage much larger formations. In the words of one writer, they were, "lighter and lustier than [English soldiers] in travail and footmanship". The dart was the weapon of choice for the kern, the bow never achieving popularity in the country. Kerns were of great use in the warfare that revolved around cattle raiding in Ireland at the time. Their role was to herd captured cattle away from the enemy territory and to support heavier troops such as the gallowglass.
Nicnak044's coyote girl dressed as an Irish Kern, part of a set of drawings I did of Nicnak044's and 
foxjump's characters inspired by their trip to Ireland a couple months ago and I felt like dressing their characters up as different warriors from medieval Ireland! A Kern was a Gaelic soldier, specifically a light infantryman in Ireland during the Middle Ages. Kerns notably accompanied bands of the mercenary Gallóglaigh as their light infantry forces, where the Gallowglass filled the need for heavy infantry. Kerns were light troops who relied on speed and mobility, often utilising lightning strike tactics as a force-multiplier to engage much larger formations. In the words of one writer, they were, "lighter and lustier than [English soldiers] in travail and footmanship". The dart was the weapon of choice for the kern, the bow never achieving popularity in the country. Kerns were of great use in the warfare that revolved around cattle raiding in Ireland at the time. Their role was to herd captured cattle away from the enemy territory and to support heavier troops such as the gallowglass.
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I may have heard of Kerns and Gallowglasses before, but if I had, it didn't stick. But I find it funny that I'm bumping into these terms here while one of the books I'm currently reading is T. H. White's The Once and Future King. So cool, thanks for giving a little explanation on what they tended to do; I figured they were soldiers of some description when I was reading, but I wasn't entirely sure if I "got it" at the time.
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