swere made to harden copper, and tomake it better suited for cutting imple-ments by a slight intermixture, princi-pally of tin. Hence arose that mixedmetal to which the name of bronzehas been given. Of this metal, then,the Northmen of the bronze periodformed their armor, and, among nu-merous other… … These shields are formed of somewhat thinplates of bronze, the edge being turned over athick wire of metal to prevent the sword pene-trating too deeply. The handle is formed of across-bar placed at the reverse side of the centreboss, which is hollowed out for the purpose ofadmitting the hand. « ♦ •…
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