mailshirt

plural mailshirts

1. alternativeAlternative form of mail shirt.

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   2003, Earl R. Anderson, Folk-taxonomies in Early English, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, page 156

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   The Column portrays them wearing mailshirts and fighting with swords, as they did in the early Middle Ages. Since mailshirts slow men down, such men would have shared with wolves no so much speed but fierceness, […]

   2004 August 2, Michael P. Speidel, Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas, Routledge, →ISBN, page 15

   It is shown with a smooth surface, but Peter Connolly suggested it is actually mail, mailshirts often being sculpted smooth and then painted to indicate the material. However short mailshirts with pteruges do not seem to be known this early, or indeed before the 1st century AD when the Romans start to use them,[…]

   2012 April 9, Duncan Head, Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 277

   References to mailshirts are to be found in both Viking and Anglo Saxon literature; the poem Beowulf refers to men swimming in mail armour, although this may just be poetic licence. There are later mentions of mailshirts in the Viking Age, for[…]

   1997, Dan Shadrake, Susanna Shadrake, Barbarian Warriors: Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Potomac Books