ring mail
Example Sentences
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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
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)
Both of them wore ring mail of the best.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln 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
