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byrnie (BUR-nee) - n., a coat or shirt of mail, a hauberk.
May or may not be sleeveless -- the exact distinctions between a byrnie, hauberk, and haubergeon seem to have changed over the centuries and likely will never get cleared up. The word goes back to Old English brynja (which has Germanic cognates all over) and survived through Scots English.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
(What? -- I never said I wasn't going to do more Scots.)
---L.
May or may not be sleeveless -- the exact distinctions between a byrnie, hauberk, and haubergeon seem to have changed over the centuries and likely will never get cleared up. The word goes back to Old English brynja (which has Germanic cognates all over) and survived through Scots English.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
(What? -- I never said I wasn't going to do more Scots.)
---L.
