thank you for downloading "the middle ages III",
yet another freeware clipfont from the folks at ecf.

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"a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths
of the law of chivalry."
-d.l. sayers
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"the middle ages III" is a windows95 truetype font 
digitized from a collection of 19th century public domain woodcuts
in march of 1997
by steven j. lundeen,
emerald city fontwerks, 
seattle, washington, usa.

this clipfont has been made available as freeware,
and no restrictions have been placed on its distribution or use.

however,
the font author has included this readme file 
because it contains ***essential "middle ages III" information ...

which users may find entertaining reading
as they slog their way back home to the castle
after an exhausting day of looting, pilfering 
and slaying dragons ...


---ESSENTIAL "MIDDLE AGES III" INFORMATION---


a - hauberk, originally an armor protecting the neck,
	a shirt of mail formed of small steel rings interwoven;
	(also: habergeon)
b - hauberk, mirror image
c - tabard, a sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn over the armor,
	covering the body before and behind, and reaching below
	the loins, but open at the sides, from the shoulders
	downward. it was generally embroidered with the arms of 
	the wearer. when worn by a herald, it bore the arms of his
	lord, or of the sovereign
d - tabard, mirror image
e - coat of mail, defensive armor composed of steel rings
	or plates intertwined with, or enveloping, one another
f - morion, a kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver,
	and somewhat resembling a hat
g - conferring knighthood, "when the order of knighthood was
	conferred with full solemnity in the leisure of a court
	or city, imposing preliminary ceremonies were required of
	the candidate. he prepared himself by prayer and fasting,
	watched his arms at night in a chapel, and was then 
	admitted with the performance of religious rites.
	knighthood was conferred by the accolade, which, from the
	derivation of the name, should appear to have been
	originally an embrace; but afterward consisted, 
	as it still does, in a blow of the flat of a sword
	the back of the kneeling candidate." (brande)
h - lochaber ax (or lochaberaxe), a formidable weapon of war, 
	consisting of a pole bearing an ax at its upper end,
	formerly used by the scotch highlanders
i - lochaber ax, mirror image
j - martel-de-fer, a hammer and pick combined, used by 
	horse-soldiers in the middle ages to break and destroy armor
k - martel-de-fer, mirror image
l - pavisor with pavise, a large shield covering the whole body,
	having an inward curve.  shield was used by pavisor
	to shield an archer 
m - pavisor with pavise, mirror image
n - quiver, a case or sheath for arrows
o - cresset, an open lamp, filled with combustible material,
	placed on a beacon, lighthouse, etc., or carried on a pole
p - cresset
q - sallet (or salade), a light kind of helmet, introduced during
	the fifteenth century, chiefly for the use of foot soldiers
	("then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved."
					-latimer)
r - sallet, mirror image
s - back-piece (or back-plate), a piece of armor for covering the back
t - gorget, a piece of armor for defending the throat or neck;
	a kind of breastplate like a half-moon 
u - gargoyle, a spout projecting from the roof gutters of buildings,
	especially of ancient ones, carved grotesquely, often
	representing human figures, or animals, or birds,
	of real or fanciful kinds

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