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chainmail's full-body cousin, knitting iron into a shirt that laughed at swords
means A hauberk is a long defensive shirt of chainmail, typically reaching to the knees and often with sleeves, worn by medieval soldiers to guard the body against cuts and thrusts.
from From Old French 'hauberc,' which came from a Frankish (Germanic) word reconstructed as 'halsberg' — literally 'neck-protector,' from 'hals' (neck) plus 'bergan' (to protect or shelter). So the name began life describing armor for the throat, then stretched, like the garment itself, to cover the whole torso. Its Germanic cousins survive in words like German 'Halsberge.'
- ring count
- often 30,000 or more interlocked links
- weight
- roughly 20 to 30 pounds of pure iron
- name origin
- from Old Frankish for neck-protection
- weakness
- useless against a blunt warhammer's crush
- making time
- months of riveting rings one by one
henry viii's armor — royal armouries leeds, example from 1544 showing riveted mail construction
bayeux tapestry hauberks — norman conquest 1066, depicts soldiers wearing chainmail hauberks in battle