different between byrnie vs habergeon

English

Etymology

From Old Norse brynja. Cognates include Old English byrne, Gothic ???????????????????????? (brunj?) (whence Old Church Slavonic ????? (br?nj?)), German Brünne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??ni/

Noun

byrnie (plural byrnies)

1. (historical) A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs.
   • 1972, John Gardner, Grendel, André Deutsch, page 97:

     Unferth stood beside him, his huge arms folded on his byrnie.

   • 1992, Calvin B Kendall, Voyage to the Other World, University of Minnesota, page 19:

     The mail-coat, or byrnie, was made of iron links that probably were cut out of sheet metal with a die, or from flat hammered wire cut into short lengths.

Coordinate terms

• haubergeon
• hauberk

Translations

Anagrams

• Birney, Briney, briney

English

Etymology

From Old French haubergeon, from Vulgar Latin *halsbergus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha.b?.d???n/, /h??b??.d??n/

Noun

habergeon (plural habergeons)

1. (historical) A sleeveless coat of mail armour.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles […]

   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Nehemiah 4:16:

     And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Related terms

• hauberk