ring mail

It is true that only one trace of a byrnie, and that apparently not of ring-mail, has so far been found in an Anglo-Saxon grave.

The effigy is clad in a shirt of ring mail, above which is a loose garment, girded at the waist.

We see the men with their “byrnies” of ring mail, their crested helmets, their leather-covered shields and deadly short swords.

Wrangling and stamping about, the men were struggling into their shirts of ring-mail.

King Olaf had in his ship 100 men armed in coats of ring-mail, and in foreign helmets.