great helm

I also chose to wear my hair short because it was more comfortable when wearing a great helm.

A great helm sat on the table at his elbow, next to a pair of gauntlets.

"Nowr The great helm turned her way, the face within dark with anger.

By the mid 14th century the great helm was probably largely relegated to tournament use.

D'Averc shrugged and lowered his great helm over his face.

It was the forerunner of the great helm.

Also the great helm could be worn over a cervelliere, and by the late 13th century this would be the usual practice.

His next words boomed hollowly from inside his fearsome great helm.

Judge Fear is an imposing figure who wears a black great helm accented with large, bat-like wings.

The bascinet evolved from its early skull cap form to supersede the great helm for combat.

The great helm afforded a high degree of protection, but at the cost of very restricted vision and agility.

Bascinets, other than great bascinets, could be worn beneath a great helm.

The Medieval great helm covers the whole head and often is accompanied with camail protecting throat and neck as well.

The great helm ultimately evolved from the nasal helmet, which had been produced in a flat-topped variant with a square profile by about 1180.

Made of purbeck marble, they are heavily weathered, although the great helm and shield of one is still discernable.

The Great Helm was often blackened, lacquered or painted, and frequently bore decorations such as:

By the middle of the 14th century, most knights had discarded the great helm altogether in favor of a fully visored bascinet.

Beginning in the 15th and 16th century in Germany, the frog-mouth helmet or Stechhelm, appeared as a style of great helm.

Some of the more important medieval developments included the great helm, the bascinet, the frog-mouth helm and the armet.

(lobby) of the castle (hotel) and saw a second knight, this one wearing the shallow, bowl-shaped head-guard known as the Great Helm.

From this type of helmet an intermediate type, called an 'enclosed helmet' or 'primitive great helm', developed near the end of 12th century.

The great helm is today especially popular amongst live-action role players and in medieval re-enactment such as the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Knights usually wore the great helm over a mail coif (hood) sometimes in conjunction with a close-fitting iron skull cap known as a cervelliere.

"Call me that again, ironhead," Illistyl advised him sharply, "and you'll be chasing your teeth around the inside of that great helm of yours."

The practicality of a man-at-arms being able to take off a great helm during a battle, if he wanted to continue fighting wearing just a bascinet, is unclear.