What is Scale Armor? - Practical Aspects & Historical Overview

This is an introduction to a type of historical protection that seems pretty popular in fantasy settings in one form or another. Not quite as iconic and ubiquitous as a mail hauberk, but arguably cooler looking. :) *Next Video* - Crossbow and Guns vs. scale armor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kavPt1CEJWs *** Sources *** Timothy Dawson, Armor Never Wearies. Scale and Lamellar Armour in the West, from the Bronze Age to the 19th Century USA - https://amzn.to/2LaBYiw Canada - https://amzn.to/2ISpopV David Nicolle, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States (Volume 1) https://amzn.to/2GsLAlo Arms & Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia (Volume 2) https://amzn.to/2rT3TeX Bengt Thordeman, Armour from the Battle of Wisby USA - https://amzn.to/2IJyvt9 Canada - https://amzn.to/2IsBmD3 Hugh C. Rogers and Donald J. LaRocca, A New World Find of European Scale Armor http://gladius.revistas.csic.es/index.php/gladius/article/viewFile/21/22 Tutankhamun's leather scale (or lamellar?) armor http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/amazing-revelation-suggests-king-tutankhamun-wore-battle-armor-and-was-not-a-feeble-child/ Roman Lorica Squamata https://www.roma-victrix.com/summa-divisio/armamentarium/loricae-et-ocreae/lorica-squamata-i-v-sec-d-c.html http://www.roman-artifacts.com/Armor%20Fragments%20&%20Attachments/Cavalry%20or%20Legionary%20Squamata/Legionary%20or%20Cavalry%20scale%20mail.htm Subeixi or Scythian leather scale https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26565 The Repton Warrior (possible evidence of Saxon scale armor) http://thethegns.blogspot.ca/2011/10/repton-warrior-saxon-scale-armour.html Music: "Skymning", "Chasing the Traitor", and "The Undead" by Vindsvept https://vindsvept.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/Vindsvept https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ To support the channel: http://www.patreon.com/skallagrim For one-time donations: https://www.paypal.me/SkallagrimYT Get in contact or see a list of my video uploads: https://www.facebook.com/SkallagrimYT https://twitter.com/_Skallagrim_ My favorite online store for buying swords (worldwide shipping): http://ww4.aitsafe.com/go.htm?go=kultofathena.com&afid=28632&tm=14&im=1 Where to get HEMA gear and practice swords: http://www.woodenswords.com/?Click=1799 Channel-related shirts and other merch: https://teespring.com/stores/skallagrim http://skallagrim.spreadshirt.com/ Things I recommend on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/skallagrimnilsson Best-selling knives on Gearbest: https://www.gearbest.com/promotion-best-selling-knives-special-695.html?lkid=12495372 15% off on GearBest Outdoors & Sports products with coupon code "out15off": https://www.gearbest.com/lifestyle-c_11270/show.html?lkid=12495729