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Fig. 8. Saxon slinger
Cott. MS. Claudius B. iv. British Museum
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Fig. 9. (a) Modern Cingalese dagger (b) Saxon seax
London Museum
quality of the shirt, or was the hauberk or ring-byrnie a true shirt of inter-*linked chain-mail? We incline to the theory that the Anglo-Saxon hauberk was of chain-mail; for without doubt true shirts of mail of the Viking type have been discovered both at Vimose and Thorsberg. Although belonging to a date considerably earlier than the period of which we now write, it therefore seems probable that, since these have been found, others no doubt existed in numbers; it is also reasonable to suppose that if the VIIth and
