Two Anglo Saxon soldiers in suits of armor from the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th centuries.
Two 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). Another 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 of the Middle Ages" (1796).
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