In einem englischsprachigen Forum bin ich auf ein paar Textstellen aufmerksam geworden, die sich auf die Schutzwirkung von Kettenpanzerung beziehen. In diesem Fall geht es um die Effektivität gegen Pfeilbeschuss.
Zitat:Anna Comnena wrote that during the Battle of Duazzo (1108), the Byzantines resorted to shooting the Frankish horses because their arrows were ineffective against the Frankish armour.
Zitat: Joinville describes his servants donning him in his jousting hauberk as he lay ill on the deck of a ship to protect him from incoming Saracen arrows. On another occasion Joinville recounts how he was wounded five times through his hauberk by Saracen fire darts, but they did not penetrate far enough to prevent him from fighting.
Zitat: Odo of Douil wrote about king Louis VII, in an engagement during the 2nd Crusade, losing his bodyguard and forced to flee the enemy by scaling a rock face. As he climbed the enemy fired arrows but, "by the will of God his armour protected him from the arrows."
Zitat:Baha ’al-Din, Saladin’s biographer, wrote that the crusaders were protected by, very heavy felt and so stout a coat of mail that our arrows did no harm…I saw foot-soldiers with as many as ten arrows in their backs, who marched on as usual without breaking ranks.
Kennt jemand weitere Zitate, die etwa aus unserer Epoche stammen? Gerne auch zur Wirkung anderer Waffen auf Kettenhemden, Helme, Schilde, Polsterung etc.