Hauberk
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A hauberk or byrnie is a mail shirt. The term is usually used to describe a shirt reaching at least to mid-thigh and including sleeves. A haubergeon refers to a smaller mail shirt, that was sometimes
Italian hauberk from the late 15th century
David removing a hauberk, from the 13th-century Morgan Bible
Detail of hauberk made in Nuremberg, Germany, c. 1350
King Arthur wearing a hauberk; frontispiece from Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Mail and plate armour
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Mail and plate armour is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used in the Middle East, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, Greater Ir
Hauberk
…of the Rings trilogy. Most notably, Frodo Baggins is gifted a shirt made of mithril by Bilbo. The Ringwraiths are also depicted as wearing hauberks. Mail and plate armour – a type of mail with embedded plates Media related to Hauberk at Wikimedia Commons…
Russian mail and plate armour (behterets), Hermanni linn Museum, Narva, Estonia
Polish: Bechter diagramm
Different methods of joining plates to mail
Japanese mail and plate armour in the form of a karuta tatami-do