Re: Pedantic ragging on "Celtic"

From: Greg <Greg_at_aSLSmELEmQGSYcJ9cfGVMxJjZrleGAnI7ZH287MLZW0Y_f0Zy8MIpiuUOwaCShN0hjoe3Ff>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 07:18:51 -0800

YGWV Trotsky wrote:

> 

> > Note that I count
> > those wacky Tournament helmets with all sorts of crests worn during the
> > later Middle Ages as "ceremonial" - you wouldn't have found those in the
> > middle of a for-real battle, or even the melee at the tournament.

My understanding is that those decorations on the medieval helms were paper mache, made to be smashed and offer no hold for a weapon.

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