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Matthe, I am still waiting for you to tell me about the legend of the Plate Mail! D:
Plate Mail does not exist. It never existed. It is the awful creation of gamers who fail to understand historical armour development or reading Sir Walter Scott novels and running with it. Same as with Chainmail.
*shudder*
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Matthe, I am still waiting for you to tell me about the legend of the Plate Mail! D:
Plate Mail does not exist. It never existed. It is the awful creation of gamers who fail to understand historical armour development or reading Sir Walter Scott novels and running with it. Same as with Chainmail.
*shudder*
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16-Jun-2015 12:02:10
So Plate Mail and Chainmail don't exist, yet I've found the entire history of Mail armour dating as far back as the 4th century B.C.
I am really confused now T_T @Lisaa_RS - Followed by @Runescape
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16-Jun-2015 14:16:36 - Last edited on 16-Jun-2015 14:16:51 by Lisaa
Mail armour exists. It is what people often call chainmail.
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The origins of the word “mail” are not fully known. One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word macula, meaning "spot" or “opacity” (as in macula of retina).[8] Another theory relates the word to the old French “maillier”, meaning “to hammer” (related to the modern English word “malleable”).[8]
The first attestations of the word “mail” are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: “maille” “maile”, or “male” or other variants, which became “mailye” “maille” “maile”, “male”, or “meile” in Middle English.
The modern usage of terms for mail armour is highly contested in popular and, to a lesser degree, academic culture. Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “mail”, however “chain-mail” has become a commonly used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott’s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel. Since then the word “mail” has been commonly, if incorrectly, applied to other types of armour, such as in “plate-mail” (first attested in 1835). The more correct term is “plate armour”.
All the fault of the Victorians. Again.
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From Wikipedia
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The origins of the word “mail” are not fully known. One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word macula, meaning "spot" or “opacity” (as in macula of retina).[8] Another theory relates the word to the old French “maillier”, meaning “to hammer” (related to the modern English word “malleable”).[8]
The first attestations of the word “mail” are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: “maille” “maile”, or “male” or other variants, which became “mailye” “maille” “maile”, “male”, or “meile” in Middle English.
The modern usage of terms for mail armour is highly contested in popular and, to a lesser degree, academic culture. Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “mail”, however “chain-mail” has become a commonly used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott’s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel. Since then the word “mail” has been commonly, if incorrectly, applied to other types of armour, such as in “plate-mail” (first attested in 1835). The more correct term is “plate armour”.
All the fault of the Victorians. Again.
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16-Jun-2015 15:32:09
So that's why they're called Platebodies and Chainbodies in Runescape, interesting
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16-Jun-2015 19:58:22
Using 18g galvanised steel rings an average hauberk would probably take something like 40,000 rings and would weigh something like 20lbs. A hauberk for myself would take about 60,000 and weigh nearly 30lbs.
If that sounds heavy it is worth remembering that the standard load out for a British Army Soldier during the 80's and 90's, before personal body armours, was 85lbs.
Platemail. Victorian.
Simples.
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If that sounds heavy it is worth remembering that the standard load out for a British Army Soldier during the 80's and 90's, before personal body armours, was 85lbs.
Platemail. Victorian.
Simples.
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17-Jun-2015 08:21:37
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