10-11th Century Irish Warriors

[Celtic505]

Wow, speaking of the McBride illustration showing an Irish warrior at the battle of clontarf, I just found another illustration portraying the same exact thing but by another artist. I'm familiar with the McBride painting and am sure this is definately another artists work. I assumed the artist simply copied McBrides paintings, complete with the apron like garment that is the subject of this thread. However I read that supposedly the Irish annals recorded that Boru's son and other noble warriors donned crested gold/silver helmets with precious stones and gems all over them. I guess the author who instructed McBrides illustration as well as this one felt that as no such helmet has been found in Ireland that perhaps a Berkasovo type helmet that we know was in use in Britain after the withdrawal of the Romans and into the so called "Arthurian" age, was the piece of armor that the bards described. From the description it does seem like the writer is depicting such a helmet, but since you cannot be 100% sure my hands are up in the air and I cannot say either way. Still......pretty interesting stuff. Oh yeah the above mentioned illustration is posted below.





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