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==Introduction==
We have no surviving mail shirts from the Viking Age in Britain. Even across Europe we only have the one find from Gjermundbu in Norway and that is seriously damaged due to being cremated. So to deduce the style of mail shirts worn during the Viking Age in Britain we need to look at both the manuscript evidence, both Anglo-Saxon and continental, and at the scraps of mail that we have managed to recover.Unfortunately although armour is mentioned in literature, for example Beowulf, it is usually refereed to simply as a byrnie. This translates as "body Armour" and doesn't necessarily mean that it's a mail shirt as it could equally be referring to scale armour or even lamella. This issue of separating Mail shirts from other forms of body armour is equally an issue with manuscript images. Here I have made a 'best guess' but I appreciate that other people may well interpret an image differently to myself.
==Type 1 : Short Mail Shirts==
