Body armor was basically the byrnie or chain mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Mercenary]

A scarlet, longsleeved coat partly covered the byrnie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vanishing Tower]

Leeza, wot if tihs guy is waring a KILT wif hims byrnie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

His men might mostly lack helmet, byrnie, shield, long weapon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

According to AfriCat, a byrnie is waste-lengf chainmale armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

October 6, 2009 at 11:27 am if dis guy iz wering teh kitl, tehn wuts byrnie wering?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Too bad they are wearing hauberk or byrnie and only get a bit of a third degree burn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

The man was clad in a conical silver helm and was encased to the knee in a byrnie also of silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vanishing Tower]

Thanks for the source code, it looks lovely customised. byrnie December 20, 2005 6:50 AM # | Delete.    From Wordnik.com.  [K1] Reference

But I ween this war fire is hot, fierce and poisonous; therefore have I on me shield and byrnie.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

At the end of each braid was a small fingerbone which rattled on the shoulders of his byrnie as he moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sailor On The Seas of Fate]

A shirt made from mail is a hauberk if knee-length, haubergeon if mid-thigh length, and byrnie if waist-length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

They, like Dalfin, would wear neither helm nor byrnie.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference

They relieve him of helmet and byrnie, and swing away in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference

So I made no delay, but took off my byrnie and garments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

But Blacktooth's byrnie was good, nor did the sword bite into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

It entered his side through a cleft in his byrnie and pierced him deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Only my ring mail byrnie they could not take from me, as they feared to untie my arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

Skallagrim as it crashed through helm and byrnie; and as fear crept in valour fled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

The mediaeval warrior has a heavy byrnie as well as a great shield suspended from his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

Through shield it sheared, and arm that held the shield, through byrnie mail and deep into Earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Bifrost's rainbow bridge I may not travel, for I do not die with byrnie on breast and sword aloft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

His face was white, and white as snow was his beard, and blood from his great wound ran down his byrnie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

The blow falls on his shield, and shears off the side of it, then strikes the byrnie beneath, but lightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Then he entered the cave and set a plain black steel helm upon his black locks, and a black chain byrnie about his breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

"One measured your mail, byrnie and helm both, as you slept.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thane of Wessex] Reference

Still, fear not: we shall soon meet with weapons aloft and byrnie on breast. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

October 6, 2009 at 11:09 am byrnie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

'Mongst all men in byrnie clad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm] Reference

The braided byrnie and tested sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems] Reference

Shield's border burst, and the byrnie sang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems] Reference

To Skallagrim also he gave a good byrnie of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

That the byrnie burst; in breast was he wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems] Reference

Gashing giant, byrnie-breacher (3).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference