The metal objects represented include hauberks ( not typical for Scandinavian sites ), helmets, battle-axes, Carolingian swords, and arrows.
12.
Originally it was a mere stitched and quilted lining ( " doubling " ), worn under a hauberk or cuirass to prevent bruising and chafing.
13.
Because of this weakness most warriors wore a mail shirt ( haubergeon or hauberk ) beneath their plate armour ( or coat-of-plates ).
14.
Further injuries to the vertebrae in the neck could only have happened outside of battle, since during battle a hauberk would have protected those neck vertebrae.
15.
Ordinary soldiers were lucky to have a mail hauberk, and perhaps some " cuir bouilli " ( " boiled leather " ) knee or shin pieces.
16.
In Iceland, Norway, and Sweden such cloth is referred to as " hringofann ", meaning " hauberk ", a term persisting to the present day.
17.
For the purposes of calling blows, all heavy-weapons combatants are considered to be armored in a chain mail hauberk, with an open-faced helmet with a nasal.
18.
Armour of an ordinary soldier changed very little, but eminent knights ( including Henry II the Pious ) had their hauberks enriched with iron plate elements, and great helms, nicely ornamented.
19.
Mail-clad warriors typically wore separate rigid warhammers could harm the wearer by their impact without penetrating the armour; usually a soft armour, such as gambeson, was worn under the hauberk.
20.
The " hauberk " stored in the Prague Cathedral, dating from the 12th century, is one of the earliest surviving examples from Central Europe and was supposedly owned by Saint Wenceslaus.
