Anglo Saxon soldiers in suits of armor from the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th centuries. A soldier with a long lance wearing a blue cape over a brown tunic that appears to have metal plates attached to the fabric in the skirt 61. Soldier with lance, long-bow and shield wearing a tunic of metal plates that resemble fish-scales over a bright yellow skirt 62. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1796.

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