[Regia-NA] Mail?

[Wulfhere se Treowryhta]

Flat rectangular sounds more like "was round and got pounded flat to 
make a riveting surface". Which makes sense. So, sounds like round wire 
with flattened overlaps for the rivets was the order of the day.

Biggest problem I face folks is that my local library can't get any of 
these "works" I see in the regia lists and the universities only allow 
registered students in their libraries. Museum libraries might be an 
option if they were open more than 1 hour a week.

So, I can procure, at reasonable cost, soft steel round section rings 
with flattened overlapped ends. The same supplier sells triangular 
copper rivets for assembly. Sound reasonable enough for a 10th Century 
Saxon?

Bigger question:  Are Saxon and Norse weapons and armor of the same 
period close enough to be considered one and the same, or at least 
pertinent to each other?


On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Schuster, Robert L. wrote:

>
>>
>> Actually, there are probably people reading this list with more
>> authoritative sources on Viking age mail than I have readily at hand.
>> Perhaps one of them could answer your questions.
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> IIRC the article "Catalogue of Scandinavian mail" by Sonia A. O'Conner 
> (which is in Dominic Tweddle's "The Anglian Helmet from Coppergate.") 
> states that there is some evidence of mail of square cross section 
> from Tuna, Gotland but they were unsure if this was mail or part of a 
> chain.
>
> I know that in the article Rus Scott wrote about mail he believed that 
> "There are no square sectioned links, at best there is the possibility 
> of some flat rectangular sectioned links."
>
> I am not sure how he came to that conclusion but I am sure he has done 
> more research on the subject than I have.
>
> Halvgrimr
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