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Warrior 11th Cenury

Warrior 11th Cenury.jpg First Great Seal of King Richard IThumbnailsSaxon Soldier, in Leather ArmourFirst Great Seal of King Richard IThumbnailsSaxon Soldier, in Leather ArmourFirst Great Seal of King Richard IThumbnailsSaxon Soldier, in Leather ArmourFirst Great Seal of King Richard IThumbnailsSaxon Soldier, in Leather ArmourFirst Great Seal of King Richard IThumbnailsSaxon Soldier, in Leather Armour
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In the Additional MS. 11,695, in the British Museum, a work of the eleventh century, there are several representations of warriors thus fully armed, very rude and coarse in drawing, but valuable for the clearness with which they represent the military equipment of the time. At folio 194 there is a large figure of a warrior in a mail shirt, a conical helmet,[Pg 316] strengthened with iron ribs converging to the apex, the front rib extending downwards, into what is called a nasal, i.e., a piece of iron extending downwards over the nose, so as to protect the face from a sword-cut across the upper part of it.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages, by Edward Lewes Cutts
Published in 1911
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