The newest members of the group who are still honing their skills and practicing their craft.
When you start learning to fight your main focus is is on the spear this teaches you the basics of pulling your shorts (not putting 100% into your hits)
Then you move onto axe and sheild the Viking bread and butter this allows you to move forward from the killing position in the sheild wall to the frontlines
Finally if you've got the hack silver it you learn short sword