Anglo Danish warriors of the reign of King Cnut, 11th century. Two warriors in round helmet with nasal guard, hauberk tunic and trousers in some kind of chainmail, leather or wire-sewn quilt. In battle with Anglo-Saxon warriors with banner. From an Anglo-Danish prayer book, Cotton MS Caligula A vii. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by John Hill, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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