Spanish Armor: FTW

"Spanish Armor: FTW"
October 5th, 2010

Okay, this one was TOTALLY coming. Sir Walter Scott: You can't even blame me. You deserve this one. The knight who is slightly reminiscent of St. Sebastian is Sir Maurice DeBracy, one of my favorite characters from "Ivanhoe."

I hope this is fairly self-explanatory, or if not, then the passages for said inspiration are as follows:

"...said the Templar; "but let us think of making good the castle.---How fought these villain yeomen on thy side?"

"Like fiends incarnate," said De Bracy. "They swarmed close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery[*coughRobinHoodcough*], for I knew his horn and baldric. And this is old Fitzurse's boasted policy, encouraging these malapert knaves to rebel against us! Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. He told every rivet on my armour with a cloth-yard shaft, that rapped against my ribs with as little compunction as if my bones had been of iron---But that I wore a shirt of Spanish mail under my plate-coat, I had been fairly sped."

"But you maintained your post?" said the Templar..."

....

Thrice did Locksley bend his shaft against De Bracy, and thrice did his arrow bound back from the knight's armour of proof. "Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!" said Locksley, "had English smith forged it, these arrows had gone through, an as if it had been silk or sendal."

~ "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott, Chapters 30 and 31

Heeheeheehee...Oh my, I just love DeBracy.

That little guy under yonder storm-cloud is none other than Locksley, a.k.a. Robin Hood.

I hate you.
LOL.

Enjoy!