Interesting. I had never thought about what a knight in shining armor did in Winter. The armor, I would think, is likely to get extremely cold and effectively refrigerate the wearer. Plus, when it gets wet, it will freeze into a rigid configuration. As the King of Siam would say, “Is a puzzlement.”
I guess it’s explained in the famous Christmas carol, " Good King Wenceslas." Assume that the saint’s miraculous heated footsteps transferred through his horse, and that the page was very short:.http://www.carols.org.uk/good_king_wenceslas.htm.…Page and monarch forth they wentForth they went togetherThrough the rude wind’s wild lamentAnd the bitter weather.“Sire, the night is darker nowAnd the wind blows strongerFails my heart, I know not how,I can go no longer.”“Mark my footsteps, my good pageTread thou in them boldlyThou shalt find the winter’s rageFreeze thy blood less coldly.”.In his master’s steps he trodWhere the snow lay dintedHeat was in the very sodWhich the Saint had printedTherefore, Christian men, be sureWealth or rank possessingYe who now will bless the poorShall yourselves find blessing .
Yeah, I think he would have been better off putting the sweater on under the armor rather than over. That way, it would help keep him warm, this way, it would just keep the armor warm.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 8 years ago
Interesting. I had never thought about what a knight in shining armor did in Winter. The armor, I would think, is likely to get extremely cold and effectively refrigerate the wearer. Plus, when it gets wet, it will freeze into a rigid configuration. As the King of Siam would say, “Is a puzzlement.”
emptc12 over 8 years ago
I guess it’s explained in the famous Christmas carol, " Good King Wenceslas." Assume that the saint’s miraculous heated footsteps transferred through his horse, and that the page was very short:.http://www.carols.org.uk/good_king_wenceslas.htm.…Page and monarch forth they wentForth they went togetherThrough the rude wind’s wild lamentAnd the bitter weather.“Sire, the night is darker nowAnd the wind blows strongerFails my heart, I know not how,I can go no longer.”“Mark my footsteps, my good pageTread thou in them boldlyThou shalt find the winter’s rageFreeze thy blood less coldly.”.In his master’s steps he trodWhere the snow lay dintedHeat was in the very sodWhich the Saint had printedTherefore, Christian men, be sureWealth or rank possessingYe who now will bless the poorShall yourselves find blessing .
Linguist over 8 years ago
Sir Merwin forced to wear the Christmas sweater his granny knitted for him. ( Matching tolk hidden under his helmet ).
OldestandWisest over 8 years ago
Yeah, I think he would have been better off putting the sweater on under the armor rather than over. That way, it would help keep him warm, this way, it would just keep the armor warm.
Peam Premium Member over 8 years ago
The Norwegian Knight Knit.
johnbrown1859 almost 5 years ago
That’s why chivalry never caught on in Greenland.