Now strove the two knights together, hand to hand, in such fashion that shield and helm and hauberk were hewn in pieces, and the blood ran from their bodies by reason of their trenchant glaives.
Another hauberk of large size was found in Phoenix Park, Dublin, thirty years ago, but a silver badge of an O'Neil found with it showed it to have been buried not earlier than the middle of the fifteenth century.
The Norman hauberk did not open down the front, but was drawn over the head by the attendants just before the engagement commenced.
In the mutilated effigy at Sandwich the thick quilted gambeson is distinctly seen at the knee and wrist underlying the mail, while the fine hauberk of plate overlies it, and the surcoat is worn over all.
How great was that treasure of treasures: and the Helm of Dread was there; The world but in dreams had seen it; and there was the hauberk of gold; None other is in the heavens, nor has earth of its fellow told.
Well 'twas for him his hauberk was of proof; for the blows came just like to a storm of hail.
Before I turn my face, my shield shall be destroyed, my hauberk riven, and my arm so bruised it cannot wield a blade.
Tall and well-shaped, his natural manly grace, set off with hauberk rich and burnished casque, struck Brunissende, who eyed him curiously.
They pull a dazzling white steel hauberk over Aimery's head and adjust its cape.
Helmets are usually laced to the hood of the hauberk by small leathern straps.
Clothed as they are now in heavy hauberk and helmet, they run, each man to his horse, and try to leap to the saddle at one bound without touching foot to the stirrups.
A few brightly colored threads are sometimes worked into the links for ornament, but the flashing sheen of a good hauberkis its sufficient glory.
He found within his chamber whom he sought, Polishing with exactest care his arms Resplendent, shield and hauberk fingering o'er With curious touch, and tampering with his bow.
Him gliding swiftly by, swifter than he Achilles with a javelin reach'd; he struck His belt behind him, where the golden clasps Met, and the double hauberk interposed.
Forceful on the shield it struck Of Diomede, transpierced it, and approach'd 325 With threatening point the hauberk on his breast.
He laughed and said: "Seest thou not, mother, that I go afoot, and I in hauberk and helm?
Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.
But let her do on a hauberk over her coats, and steel coif over her head, for shaft and bolt will ofttimes go astray.
And therewith he did off his hauberk and his other armour save his sallet.
But now I bid thee drink of this water, and then do off thine helm and hauberk and give me thy sword and dagger, and go with us peaceably; and be not overmuch ashamed, for I have overcome men who boasted themselves to be great warriors.
And he arose and did on his hauberk and basnet, and girt his sword to his side, and went forth, a-foot as before.
So they gathered a heap of wood and made the fire great; and then Ralph did off his helm and hauberk and the damsel did the like, so that he could see the shapeliness of her uncovered head.
Tis custom in my father’s land For maids to mount and ride to fight; My breasts not growing more, is owing Unto the chafe of my hauberk tight.
King Hafbur with delighted heart Upon the bed himself has flung; I tell to ye for verity That as he fell his hauberk rung.
He himself, despite his constitutional horror of death, would perhaps not have been sorry at this time to lay off his hauberk if he could have been certain of the victory.
The goddess who loves him gives him, as he goes to battle against the Romans, a magicalhauberk on which rests this strange fate: that he who wears it shall save his own life and destroy the life of his land.
Prompted by this fair princess, whose name was Angela, Huon secured the ring, and donned a magic hauberk hanging near.
A hauberk will I give thee, strong, and of wondrous might; Better armor never bore champion in the fight.
Norman knight who stood near, that it pierced through the hauberk into the heart, and came out dripping with life's blood.
This company wore helmet and hauberk and brand, and rode fair destriers, fierce and right speedy.
His hauberk was stout and richly chased, even such a vesture as became so puissant a king.
I should grieve sorely to see an arrow, even in a boy's hand, aimed at your honour's present hauberk of cloth and velvet.
It may be noticed that a dagger or short sword was worn by the knight even in days of chain mail, for the hauberk was a complete case.
The helmet conveyed the idea of shamefacedness; and the hauberk was emblematical of the spiritual panoply which should protect a man and a soldier from the vices to which his nature was liable.
Instances are on record of knights encountering with swords made of whalebone, covered with parchment, the helmet and hauberk being made of leather.
In each case, the back and crown of the head were saved harmless by a hood of mail, which sometimes formed part of the hauberk or haubergeon, and sometimes was detached.
The crusades began at the close of the eleventh century, and before the end of the thirteenth, not only was the hauberk composed of twisted mail, but mixed armour of plate and mail was common.
Knight, in hauberk and complete suit of mail, in good preservation, shield with boss on it held down: he wears cyclindrical helmet, his eyes and nose being visible through the slit.
Knight in hauberk and chausses of mail, hood of hauberk enclosing whole head except a portion of the face: on head is the thick fillet.
Knight, hauberkand surcoat of mail, cylindrical helmet, shield on left side; delapidated.
Knight in surcoat over chain armour, hauberk but no helmet; right arm and left hand gone, but head turned to left and attitude is that of drawing or sheathing his sword.
Knight in surcoat, mail hauberk and chausses, shield on left side.
Against such terrible weapons wielded by such powerful arms, helmet and hauberk afforded but a poor defence.
I can see now the close line of shields, the helmet covered faces above them, and the terrible axes rising and falling, cleaving through helmet and hauberk as if they had been pasteboard.
I found my master,' he writes, 'sitting up in his bed in his hauberk of mail.
Beggared so of all emblems of his grace, clad only in hauberk of steel, bareheaded, without weapon, and on foot, he walked among his mounted men into the little town of Fontevrault.
When you carried war into my country in the King your father's time, I met you in a hauberk of mail.
The hauberk is seen beneath the taces and, in the former brass, in the 'defaut de la cuirasse', or unprotected part at the junction of arm and body.
Occasionally in illuminated manuscripts the hauberk is shown slit at the sides; but for what purpose it is difficult to imagine, for it would impede the wearer when walking and would make riding an impossibility.
The sleeves of the hauberk were sometimes short; sometimes they were long and ended in fingerless mittens of mail.
Waller, in his article on the Hauberk of mail in Archaeologia, vol.
So well I fought Against the Saracens, my spear was broke, My shield was pierced, my hauberk torn and wrung, And in my body eight steel darts I bear.
The strong-mailed hauberkshelters not, As he is pierced through liver, heart and lungs.
Guineman 'gainst the King of Leutice tilts; The Pagan's shield with painted flowers bedecked Is shattered and his hauberk torn away.
Beltane; and off came hauberk and quilted gambeson and away skipped Sir Fidelis into the green.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hauberk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aegis; armor; cortex; harness; mail; panoply; shell; shield
