Capitolo 94
while the iron that formed the actual weapon has disappeared.
Primitive armor was based on a leather foundation, from now the name
cuirass, was deduced by _cuir_ (the leather). In a first book I have
alluded to the armor of the nomadic tribes from which I/you/they are described
Pausanias as coats common of mail facts out of the strikes with the clog of horses,
divides, and it placed overlap each other, while fabbricandoloro "anything as
the staircases" of dragon, as he/she explains Pausanias; adding for the benefit
of those that are little relatives with the anatomy of dragons, "Whoever has,
not seen _yet_ a dragon, in every case, you/he/she has still seen a pine give conic form to
green. These are likes equally in aspect to the surface of this
armor." These horny staircases of difficulty it strikes with the clog undoubtedly suggested,
to a later date, the use of thick leather as a form of protection,
and the gradual evolution can be imagined.
The art of the armourer was in the first durations of mediaeval the art of the
creative of chain. The coat of chain or coats of mail, arrived in soon
days as far as the knees. This finally developed in a whole
replacing the man with change of head as good,; clearly this form
of armor permission of any true ornamentation, for there any space it was
greater than the connections of the chain on whether to give decoration.
Every connection of a coat of mail was brought round in a ring, the ends
covered, and a small nail inserted. Warriors had trust no
league for welder or the other way of assure. The whole magnificence of chivalrous
ornament was assembled in the surcoat, a splendid embroidered or
tunic gem-decorated to the knees of which were brought on the coat
mail. These surcoatses were repaired with expensive furs thick ermine,
or vair, the second being similar to what we now call squirrel,
it departs that is grey and it departs white. The famous slipper of Cinderella was
fact of "vair" that, through a misunderstanding in the translated being
"verre", you/he/she is become known as a slipper of glass.