hauberk

UK/ˈhɔːbɜː(ɹ)k/US/ˈhɔːbɜː(ɹ)k/

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Other forms: hauberks

A hauberk is a long shirt of chain mail. Don the hauberk, a mail hauberk, the hauberk's weight.

It reaches to the knee and weighs upwards of ten kilograms, carried on the shoulders unless a belt takes some of it. The name is Frankish and means neck cover, from what the earliest version protected.

Definitions of hauberk

1nounhauberkA long shirt of chain mail.C2
“The knight pulled his hauberk over his head, and the metal rings jingled.”

hauberk is an armour.

Where it comes from

Frankish halsberg means neck cover, from words for neck and protection.

Frankish
*halsaberg — neck-cover
Old French
hauberc
Middle English
hauberk
English, today
hauberk

From Middle English hauberk, from Old French hauberc, from Frankish halsaberg (“neck-cover”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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hauberk in the wild

A coat of this armour is often called a hauberk or sometimes a byrnie.
Chain mail
A hauberk or byrnie is a mail shirt.
Hauberk
The couter was added to the hauberk to better protect the elbows, and splinted armour provided increased protection for other areas.
Transitional armour
Jazerant (), or hauberk jazerant, is a form of medieval light coat of armour consisting of mail between layers of fabric or leather.
Jazerant
The knight wears a mail coif and a mail hauberk protecting his torso as far as his knees.
Cantwell Fada

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