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Mail Shirts

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/* Type 1 : Short Mail Shirts */
''A mail shirt that stops a couple of inches below the belt. Sleeves are usually to the elbow but can extend to the wrist.''
'''Anglo-Saxon'''<br>
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'''Carolingian'''<br>
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Book of Maccabees1.png|''Book of Maccabees c.????''
===Type 1b: Short mail shirt to just below the waist with long sleeves===
'''Anglo-Saxon'''<br>
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'''Carolingian'''<br>
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''Vandykes are a triangular finish to the hem and sometimes the cuff of a mail shirt.''
'''Anglo-Saxon'''<br>
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T49 f.18v 1.png|''BL Cotton Cleopatra C VIII fol.18v Late C10th''
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'''Carolingian'''<br>
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''A side split mail shirt’s skirt is open at the sides. An unsplit mail shirt has an additional side gore added to the side of the skirt to allow movement and offer protection.''
'''Anglo-Saxon'''<br>
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'''Carolingian'''<br>
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Codex Aureus Epternacensis f.18v 1.png|''Codex Aureus Epternacensis f.18v''
* [[O-M#O67|O67]] National Museum, Nuremberg (Hs. 156 142) - Codex aureus Epternacensis. C.1030AD [SKODELL 2008]
Mail shirts are usually shown unsplit. A few of the depictions from Western European manuscripts do however show side split mail shirts.  
==Type 2: Standard Mail Shirts==