User blog comment:Deadliest9600/Spartan V.S Viking/@comment-181289-20100917035345/@comment-181289-20100920033226

But a one-handed sheild works better in a one-on-one fight. You can punch with, push it up into you're oppenents face, catch weapons in it (which is why it was designed the way it was) ans disarm you opponent. The Spartan sheild is stronger but the Viking shiled is more versatile.

Also rember they straped the Vking sheild down, making it be tested as a strap sheild, had it been held in hand it would of rolled with blow.