viking lamellar armour for shoulder and body prote

viking lamellar armour for shoulder and body proteThe scale armour is based on fragments found in the Viking city of Birka and in Visby on Gotland. Shell and slat armour was utilised from classical antiquity well into the Middle Ages. There are some examples where scale armour was also employed by the Vikings. This tradition may have been imported from the Byzantine Empire. The scale armour may be worn separately or over chain mail. It can be easily repaired with loose parts and adjusted to size.

It was also the period during which the Vikings navigated the Dnieper and Volga rivers

ensuring they are always close to hand

he passed away in the arms of his beloved "Dulcinea del Toboso

Gussets were employed in almost every early medieval dress

5 cm for the centrepiece

2 mm thick galvanised brass

The cross-guard is slightly bent for parrying enemy blows

It has a length of 44 cm with a blade of 27 cm and weighs approx

much like the war mace

medieval and fantasy costumes

In earlier gauntlets

it is built to perform