How To Use byrnie In A Sentence
- Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a _telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col_!" down goes the plated byrnie, "_Ohi grant broine cum me vas apesant_" [Footnote: _La Chancun de Willame_, lines Homer and His Age
- In common we all share sword, helmet, byrnie, the trappings of war.
- That mailshirts and helms would have been widespread is shown by the fact that Ethelred commanded that every eight hides provide a helmet and byrnie.
- And she set forth her needlework before her and did thereinto many deeds and great, and fair plays after the fashion of those days, swords and byrnies, and all the gear of kings, and the ship of King Sigmund sailing along the land; yea, and they wrought there how they fought, Sigar and Siggeir, south in Fion. The Story of the Volsungs
- They had shields and helms, but no byrnies, except a hundred men that were most lissom.
- Their byrnies were gleaming, the strong links of shining chain-mail chinked together.
- The mail byrnie of the Vikings had been sufficient to give reasonable protection to the fighting man at close quarters from the sword-blows of his adversary.
- The Tapestry shows Norman knights and English soldiers wearing identical mailed hauberks or byrnies.
- He said that his armour was almost useless, his byrnie broken, his helmet burst open.
- Their byrnies were gleaming, the strong links of shining chain-mail chinked together.