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Re: New helmet and Era.
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:11:17 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > The Kettle hat, or Kettle helm, or Ketyl(l) hat/helm, or chapelle-de-fer
> > originated around 1200 give or take a few years, as you note. No doubt there
> > are further names for it, those are just the ones I'm familair with. They
> > seem to have remained popular throughout the remainder of the medieval period
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> Heck, I know people who still wear them. :)
Not in combat, I hope! That wide dinnerplate of a helm would be both a
wonderful mace-lander as well as a great funnel for catching rattan upper-cuts!
Dave!
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| (...) there (...) period (...) upper-cuts! Yup - in combat. It's used up here in An Tir as a light helm, so the afor-mentioned problems aren't. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Heck, I know people who still wear them. :) Of course, I'm weird and in the SCA, so that might account for it... James (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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