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Re: New helmet and Era.
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:49:42 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler writes:
> 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. :)
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> 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!
Yup - in combat. It's used up here in An Tir as a light helm, so the
afor-mentioned problems aren't. :)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) Whew! Here in Athelmearc (spell it as you see fit!) I haven't yet seen them, but I've been out of the loop for awhile. I missed this past Pennsic because I was in the process of moving. Did you get there? How about last year? Dave! (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) 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! (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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