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Valheim is an upcoming survival and sandbox video game by the Swedish developer Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. [1] It was released in early access on 2 February 2021 for Linux and Windows via Steam , and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 14 March 2023.
Bronze scales were found at Mycenae and Troy; scale armour, the oldest form of metal body armor, was used widely throughout the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. In May 1960 [4] Swedish archaeologists discovered the earliest example of a beaten bronze cuirass at Dendra, dated at the end of the 15th century BC. [5]
In the videogame Valheim, the developers named an armor set after Embla, as stated in their development blog entry on November 21, 2023: "we have named this set after one of the two first humans in Norse mythology: Embla".
Fragments of ivory which might have come from helmets of this kind have been discovered on Mycenaean sites (at Dendra, for instance, fragments were found alongside the bronze panoply excavated in 1960) and an ivory plaque, also from a Mycenaean site, represents a helmet of this kind. Although they would not provide protection as good as that of ...
Bronze muscle cuirass, Italy, c. 350–300 BC. Partial plate armour, made out of bronze, which protected the chest and the lower limbs, was used by the ancient Greeks, as early as the late Bronze Age. The Dendra panoply protected the entire torso on both sides and included shoulder and neck protections.
Iron armor could be carburized or case hardened to give a surface of harder steel. [9] Plate armor became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labor and labor had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms. Mail continued to be used to protect those ...
Greek "Illyrian type" bronze helmet from Argolis (6th–5th centuries BC).. The Illyrian type helmet (or Greco-Illyrian type helmet) [note 1] is a style of bronze helmet, which in its later variations covered the entire head and neck, and was open-faced in all of its forms. [4]
The armor itself lasted until the fall of Constantinople, as Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos is recorded as wearing one during the fall. The word "corslet" was adopted as a so-called "occupational surname ," later altered to Coslett , Cosslett , Coslet , etc., following the arrival of an expert in the manufacture of osmond iron , Corslet ...