Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe / From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century - John Hewitt

[193] Waller, Part xiii.

[194] Hollis, Part iv. Plate vii.

[195] Vocis etymon a veteri Germanico quidam accersunt, Wamba, venter; vel a Saxonico Wamb, quod idem sonat: ita ut Wambasium fuit Ventrale, ventris et pectoris tegmen, quod Germanni Wammes vocant.—Adelung sub v. Gambeso.

[196] Plac. Cor., 13 Edw. I.

[197] V^e. Livraison: Bible de St. Martial.

[198] Folio, 73 verso.

[199] Trachten, Part I., Plate xii.

[200] Alexiad, p. 397.

[201] Raumer's Hohenstauf: in Von Leber's Wien's kaiserliches Zeughaus, p. 507.

[202] Add. MSS., [14],789, fol. 10. The date appears in the colophon. The figures copied in our engraving form part of an illuminated letter: hence the constrained attitude of Goliath. David has in his left hand a sling; at his belt is the pouch for the sling-stones.