05-17-2006, 09:17 AM
I can't agree with you, Gioi, that sheepskin under armour would be unbearable. Remember that knights of the First Crusade wore a padded gambeson under their hauberks and later wore Great Helms. Sheepskin does, at least, breathe.
I wonder if the chap with the fluffy garment is going to put on a linothorax or a bronze cuirass - I don't think it's visible in the depiction. I don't need anything more than a chiton under my linothorax, but I might well want more protection from chafing from a cuirass. - And this provokes another thought; metal armour acquires heat and conducts it to the skin, so a sheepskin might also insulate against this.
I wonder if the chap with the fluffy garment is going to put on a linothorax or a bronze cuirass - I don't think it's visible in the depiction. I don't need anything more than a chiton under my linothorax, but I might well want more protection from chafing from a cuirass. - And this provokes another thought; metal armour acquires heat and conducts it to the skin, so a sheepskin might also insulate against this.