Twisteroo's What is it? - Redux

[ralgith]

0

Chain maille from your suit of armor, that's my guess and I'm sticking to it.

*cough* there is no such thing as chain mail, it is a fiction created by uninformed gamers due to a poorly written book *cough*
Properly it is just cailed "Mail", no chain.


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_%28armour%29

"The modern usage of terms for mail armour is highly contested in popular and, to a lesser degree, academic culture. Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as 'mail', however 'chain-mail' has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott’s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.[11] Since then the word 'mail' has been commonly, if incorrectly, applied to other types of armour, such as in 'plate-mail' (first attested in 1835).[12] The more correct term is 'plate armour'."