✨CHAINMAIL✨ This stuff used to be the favored armor of Vikings, Saxons, Angles, Franks, Normans, and lots of other people. Plate armor and boiled leather armor wouldn't show up in Europe until centuries later and most of what we consider the aesthetic of "medieval" armor didn't show up until the Late Medieval period (1400s) or even the Early Modern period (the 1500s/1600s). You might have noticed that chainmail is one of two armor types mentioned in my Viking-inspired Fantasy Romance, Tears of t

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