11-09-2010, 08:18 PM
Quote:ArthuroftheBritons wrote:
Tenth century Welsh havey horsemen were armed with swords and javelins, and protected by mail a medium-sized shield, and a helmet. Sounds similar to what we've been theorizing about
Incidentally, this is the standard gear of the native medieval Irish horsemen; not the Anglo-Irish or English knights. The native chieftans continued to use this panoply in warfare up into the 16th century. Their war parties generally consisted of large numbers of light armed foot (kerns) with a nucleus of heavy armed foot (gallowglasses), and the elite were mounted.
Felix Wang