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JRECHTSCHAFF@hamp.hampshire.EDU writes:

Good my Lady Lyanna,

> Greetings to the Rialto,
>   A number of those who fish here use the term "chain mail".  This term,
> like that of plate mail, banded mail and scale mail is incorrect.
> Mail refers to mesh - the interlocking iron links.  Other forms of armor
> are called plate armor, scale armor etc.   Some authors do use the term
> chain mail but it is outdated and today considered very bad terminology.
> 
> In Service,
> 
> Lyanna of Bergental

Forgive an out-of-date armourer, but the three sources that fall first to
hand (Ashdown, Martin and Bashford Dean...can't find the Wallace catalogue
copy that belongs here in the manor, and the other is out in the forge)
would tend to disagree with you in re both chain and banded mail.  Of course,
one always has one's pet theory in re banded, but to the best of my knowledge
and belief, it's stall banded  mail.

The 'plate mail' abonmination is usually laid at the door of the D&D
'reserachers' who also gave you the utterly ludicrous notion of hearldry
that most new-comers seem equipped with in great profusion.

I have the distinct honour to remain,

Y'r S'rv't within the Society,

Laird Andrew MacIan of Blackthorne, called the Wyvern

  Given by hand this Twenty-sixth day of January, AS XXVII (1993 CE)
   at ShadowDragon Manor in the Barony of Altavia, Kingdom of Caid

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