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thousands of tiny rings agreeing to take a hit so you don't have to
means Armor made of small interlinked metal rings woven into a flexible mesh, worn to protect the body from cuts and blows.
from A doubling-up of words that already mean the same thing: "mail" by itself once meant this ring-armor, coming through Old French "maille" (a mesh or link of a net) from Latin "macula," a spot or the mesh of a net. Later speakers, no longer feeling "mail" as armor, tacked "chain" on the front to make the picture clear — so "chainmail" literally says "chain-mesh-of-links."
- ring count
- a full hauberk used over 30,000 linked rings
- weight
- a knight's shirt could top 25 pounds
- roman name
- called lorica hamata by Roman legions
- weak spot
- useless against blunt force and arrow punches
- still worn
- butchers wear steel mesh gloves today
haubergeon — 12th century knight's armor, short mail tunic worn under plate armor in medieval europe
byrnie — viking age mail shirt, common among norse warriors from 8th-11th centuries
golden fleece — jason's mythological chainmail-like armor in greek legend, represented in renaissance art