Meaning of mailshirt | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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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, […]”

“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,[…]”

“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[…]”

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