Scorners of Death: Fighting Skills of the Medieval Gaelic WarriorDescribed as very great scorners of death by the English writer Edmund Spenser, the Gaelic warriors of medieval Ireland and Scotland included aristocratic mounted skirmishers as well as the guerrilla fighters known as kerns or caterans, and the ferocious galloglass and redshank mercenaries armed with battle axes and two handed swords. One of the first works to focus on the weapons and fighting skills of the medieval Gaelic warrior, Scorners of Death