ring mail
Example Sentences
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Excavations in ancient grave mounds have revealed implements of the finest polished stone, beautiful bronze swords, and coats of iron ring mail, besides gold and silver ornaments which may have been imported from southern Europe.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
No better were they than the other two suits, for all three were of good Sussex ring mail as to the byrnies,x while the boar-crested helms were of hammered steel.
From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
Only my ring mail byrnie they could not take from me, as they feared to untie my arms.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
Brave and handsome they looked as they sat upon their chargers with their swords hanging at their sides and the sun shining on their burnished bronze helmets and coats of ring mail.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert
All the men in King Harald’s ship, except the berserks, were clad in coats of ring mail, and wore foreign helmets, and most of them had white shields.
From Erling the Bold by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
