Helmets: The Sallet Pt. 1

No, you're a salad :v

You got one!

I cannot be the only one that keeps hearing “salad”

Edit : I made this before looking at the comments. My god the amount of salad puns

Looks a bit too much like a stahlhelm. Wait hat is the reason that stahlhelm looks like that.

Didn't know articulated sallets existed. I want one!

I thought it was pronounced
sael-eih.

Every time I hear "Sallet" I think about Salad.

those really tall bevorless sallets look quite cursed not gonna lie

It's a lot less confusing to just say sall-ay so that people know you aren't talking about a bloody salad dood. It's not like the English language has ever stood by its rules anyways so why stick to calling it a salad (yes I know it's sallet) helmet?

Lobster Tail Salad ... a kind of Armor ?

You don't make friends with Sallets!
You don't make friends with Sallets!
You don't make friends with Sallets!
You don't make friends with Sallets!
You don't make friends with Sallets!

Great video I learned from you than any school could possibly teach

this helmet is pure elegance

Dude, your content is very informative, but the delivery is soo boring

My favorite type of helmet. The one I have has a pierced visor and the bevor, of course. These are such beautiful pieces of work!

Looks like the stahlhelm's great grandfather

I finally know how to pronounce it!

LOBSTER TAIL SALLET

I do come from the Gonzaga Family city: Mantova

I love salad!

So its common knowledge that a sallet would obviously be paired with a bevor but it only protects the front and part of the sides. How did knights protect their back napes? With a mail coif or padded pelerine underneath perhaps?

The Sallet stays on during Hand Holding session

The one made for Maximilian is a special for the joust. By fixing the bevor directly to the helm, a lance can't open a path for splinters to pass between visor and bevor.

Your a knight you got your gold with you and go to the blacksmith. You explain how you want your amour to look and function. Why? It is because it needs to be YOUR armor. Not all armor was the same. If I am spending my gold I want it the way I want it.

THE SALAT

i love salad! thanks for this video. was drawing this beautiful helmet, but i needed some more info!

Speaking of armets & sallets, why weren't the latter given a browpiece a la armet to go along with a half-visor more often?

Interesting vid, but also fascinating to see how Ian's presentation style has evolved! Newer vids are much more fluently narrated, with the pieces of the armor more clearly identified at start, and I really appreciate how the much closer-up views of the artistic representations help to better identify figures being discussed.

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What you call a halfhelm

I love king Richard the thirds sallet

I'm getting one of these for SCA.

Sallet, salade ... in italian we have the word "celata" which is a common word meaning closed or hidden. I guess our ancestors were using the celata word to differentiate with the open helmet

This helmet it's the most complicated piece of equipment I have ever wore.

Starting my collection and doing more hw on original pieces now, gotta say your vids are a great starting point.

It is quite crazy to see and hear that the germans did improve military gear since the medieval age. its like, a german soldier sees something another country's soldier uses and says: "Hold my beer, i can make a better version of this!" than he proceeds to take out his WD 40 and ducktape from his satchel and engineers a new masterpiece ^^

THIS is the helmet that the Stahlhelm was styled after.

Been 2 yrs since Ian made a vid, hope he's ok...

My favorite helmet of the medieval period. The versatility of how you can wear a proper Sallet and Bevor is hard to beat.

What a stunning replica! Could you help provide info on who made it?

Regards,
John

Nah, man. Since the bevor is separate from the helmet, id think it provides more protection to lower head area by virtue of being fully braced against your chest. I wouldnt want it to be a part of the helmet and strain my neck

The coolest helmet out there.

Man the articulated German one looks like it’s rendered in Skyrim.

Can you PLEASE STOP calling it "Germany"? At that time it was the Holy Roman Empire. Moreover, it was all modern-day Austria and parts of southern Germany. You could make an argument that it was Austria, tbh.

Is there an explanation why all new helmet forms originate from Italy around 1400? Also has the sallet anything to do etymologically with the kind of salad we eat?

Not going to lie, it really grinds my gears that so many Englishmen pronounce “sallet” as if they were French.