hauberk

On tournament day, to the king’s great chagrin, Each one left his hauberk behind at the inn.

And then, in the neatest way you could wish, the tear in the back of his hauberk caught on a hook in the wall.

Merry’s sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee.

Well, Melias went left for a’ that—and he came by ill-luck stricken through the hauberk at the hands or some mysterious knight wha rode upon him, as Galahad foretold.

He wore a long hauberk of oiled black mail, and held his sword before him: her father's greatsword; fee, near as tall as he was.