Brief history of Chainmail Armor
An evolution of Lamellar armour gave birth to Chainmail Armor Armour. This type of Lamellar consisted of large, heavy rings sewn edge-to-edge onto a leather shirt. The makers and users of Ring Lamellar soon realized that they could create a superior form of armour by linking their rings together, instead of sewing them to a base. Armour with linked rings became known as Mail or Chainmail Armor*.
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Chainmail Armor has been around for many, many years. The word chainmail armor is derived from the french word 'maille' which is essentially 'knitting' (but a certain type of it) and the Latin word 'macula' which means 'mesh' so you can see how these two words are integrated into chainmail armor. It made its first well known appearance with the Romans. But the truth is, the Romans cannot be credited with the invention of chainmail because they most likely dicovered it in the British iles. The true creators of this wonderful armor were the Celtic tribes, who are more commonly known as 'barbarians' which really means 'stranger' or basically 'person from another land' (the barbarian we think of today- the uncivilized, brute and bully figure was only brought on recently by Conan movies and such). We know that the Celts invented maille because we have found pieces -however rusted- in graves and at battle sites.
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