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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Another discovery was the life-size stone head of an effigy with a hood of closely set ring mail.
From Exeter by E. W. Haslehust
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 Hutton Webster
