Dan Howard wrote: |
We know that Europeans traded with the Japanese. By your logic you can have viking ninjas running around. FWIW lamellar was one of the cheapest forms of metal armour available. That's why it was issued to the Byzantine rank and file. Anyone with wealth in Europe during the viking era would have worn mail. Which, by the way, would include veterans of the Varangian Guard. |
Dan,
Varangian Guard (perhaps) , can not wear mail or lamellar, perhaps a kind of leather bodice. A rare photo, you can not see well, but I do not think it one or the other. We clearly see their weapons. Tomorrow I try to find this picture, it is on a book.
Now a question:
Does anyone know if other lamellar have been sewn with threads of iron or bronze?
No node behind, only folds.
Here an example, the seam may be bronze.
Ciao
Maurizio
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