A KNIGHT TAKING OFF HIS HELMET.

A KNIGHT TAKING OFF HIS HELMET. Catherine Armstrong recounts one event from a tournament which gives a flavor of the ferocity of tournament combat: at the end of one tournament, Marshal “was found with his head in his helmet on the anvil of the blacksmith. Marshal’s helmet had apparently received so many blows during the tournament that it had to be hammered back into shape before it could be removed from his head.”