ring mail
Example Sentences
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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)
The effigy is clad in a shirt of ring mail, above which is a loose garment, girded at the waist.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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)
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)
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
