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/ˈbɜːni/ · noun
(historical) A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs..
[…] those that walked armed before the Witches’ booths, six in company, harnessed as for battle in byrnies of shining bronze, with greaves and shields of bronze and helms that glanced in the sun.
It was the Viking habit. Even as a man plowed his field or chopped trees in the woods, his byrnie and his sword were always at hand.
Unferth stood beside him, his huge arms folded on his byrnie.
The mail-coat, or byrnie, was made of iron links that probably were cut out of sheet metal with a die, or from flat hammered wire cut into short lengths.
Use byrnie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Byrnie means (historical) A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs..
Common synonyms include hauberk.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] those that walked armed before the Witches’ booths, six in company, harnessed as for battle in byrnies of shining bronze, with greaves and shields of bronze and helms that glanced in the sun.
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