Question

Aventails were pieces of armor made from this material to cover a knight’s neck when wearing a helmet. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this material used to make armor, which is composed of small interlocking metal rings.
ANSWER: chain mail [accept ringmail]
[10h] Chain mail was often fashioned into this suit of armor worn over a shirt called a gambeson. The Bayeux Tapestry features both Anglo-Saxon and Norman soldiers wearing this suit of armor.
ANSWER: hauberk [or byrnie]
[10m] To counter mail armor, this weapon’s broadhead variety was gradually replaced by its bodkin variant. Historians debate over whether the Bayeux Tapestry shows Harold Godwinson being felled by this weapon.
ANSWER: arrowhead [prompt on bow and arrow; do not accept “bow” alone]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>

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