Then he let his red cloak float over him and let his byrnyshow glittering, and he drew Boardcleaver and suddenly cried out, "The Red Lad!
Nought save my shield," said Osberne; "there is a rusty steel hood stands yonder on the wall, but no byrny have we in the house.
He was girt with a sword, had a shield at his back and bore a spear in his hand, and was clad in a long byrny down to his knees.
Out then tumbled the stout men of Wethermel from shut-bed and hutch, and were presently armed, and Osberne was in his byrny and steel hood straightway, his bow in his hand and his quiver at his back.
Said Osberne: "I was somewhat afeard when I first saw thee, and thou with the grey byrny and the gleaming helm; but then I saw that thou wert no ill man, and I feared thee no longer.
His shield was full of shafts of arrows and spears; his byrny was rent in many places, his helm battered out of form.
Is there a good sword hereby, a helm, a byrny and a shield?
It is a little matter," she said; "the War-duke hath sent for the wondrous Byrny that he left in our treasury when he departed to meet the Romans.
Unto us shall one sword be, one helm, One byrnyand shield, to both of us common.
With flame was lightly then burnt up The board to the boss, and might not the byrny To the warrior the young frame any help yet.
Yode then against him and gave thanks to God That fair heap of thanes, and were fain of their lord, For that hale and sound now they might see him with eyen; Then was from the bold one the helm and the byrny All speedily loosen'd.
Therewith he did off him his byrny of iron And the helm from his head, and his dighted sword gave, The best of all irons, to the thane that abode him, And bade him to hold that harness of battle.
Nor can the ringed byrny go far and wide on behalf of heroes, after the passing of the war-chief.
And the wood of the shield was burnt up with the waves of flame, and his byrny could not help the young spear-warrior; yet did the youth bravely advance under the shield of his kinsman when his own had been destroyed by the flames.
So both sword and helmet, byrny and shield shall be common to both of us together.
Wavered the mind Within me then, If to fight I should fall And the felling of folk, Bold in Byrny Because of my brother; A deed of fame Had that been to all folk, But to many a man Sorrow of mind.
But therewithal so swelled the heart betwixt the sides of him, that the rings of his byrny burst asunder.
Thy father's men were hard thereby In byrnybright and helmet high.
O shame befall that evil nurse, Ill tidings down she drew, She stole away his goodly sword, But and his byrny new.
O hearken to this, my lord and king, And trow me nought but true; Look here upon his bright white sword, But and his byrny blue!
Lord Hafbur mid his longing sore Down on the bed he sat: I tell you of my soothfastness, His byrny clashed thereat.
She took to her his goodly sword, His byrny blue she had away, And she went her ways to the high bower Whereas King Siward lay.
He cuts the byrny from her bosom, as in the saga, and wakes her with a kiss.
He took off her helm and cut the byrny (breast-plate) from her with his sword.
THE RAVEN Thy father's men were hard thereby In byrny bright and helmet high.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "byrny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
