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7/7/2025, 7:55:24 PM
>>63946867
>The reason why it took "so long" to develop is down entirely to how large a piece of steel armor smiths had the technology to reliably forge & temper.
You can make a CoP with lamellar-armour-sized plates (one of the finds at Visby appears to have been a CoP made by recycling the plates from a lamellar cuirass, pic shows the reconstruction of it) something that they were making long before, and actually hardening and tempering armour hadn't really become a thing yet in the 14th century. Even swords may not be properly hardened at that point. Hardened armour is largely a 15th-16th century thing, and even then it's only the high end stuff (and not all of the high end stuff).
>>63947354
>I couldn't find anything about this one (it would help if anyone happens to know the inventory number)
https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213417925/bryne
>>63947970
IIRC we do see various arm defences in this period, possibly up to basically proper plate, but I'm not sure about how common various variants would have been.
>>63949734
The silk may (largely) have come from China, but that wasn't where the Vikings saw it.
>>63951541
I made an error of nothing whatsoever there, which is to say slap on an extra 0.
>>63951715
The people in the city took no part in the battle whatsoever, they just kept the gates closed and watched. Overall the city of Visby and the rest of Gotland didn't get a long very well, there was even a war between them back in 1288.
>The reason why it took "so long" to develop is down entirely to how large a piece of steel armor smiths had the technology to reliably forge & temper.
You can make a CoP with lamellar-armour-sized plates (one of the finds at Visby appears to have been a CoP made by recycling the plates from a lamellar cuirass, pic shows the reconstruction of it) something that they were making long before, and actually hardening and tempering armour hadn't really become a thing yet in the 14th century. Even swords may not be properly hardened at that point. Hardened armour is largely a 15th-16th century thing, and even then it's only the high end stuff (and not all of the high end stuff).
>>63947354
>I couldn't find anything about this one (it would help if anyone happens to know the inventory number)
https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213417925/bryne
>>63947970
IIRC we do see various arm defences in this period, possibly up to basically proper plate, but I'm not sure about how common various variants would have been.
>>63949734
The silk may (largely) have come from China, but that wasn't where the Vikings saw it.
>>63951541
I made an error of nothing whatsoever there, which is to say slap on an extra 0.
>>63951715
The people in the city took no part in the battle whatsoever, they just kept the gates closed and watched. Overall the city of Visby and the rest of Gotland didn't get a long very well, there was even a war between them back in 1288.
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