[image error]Helmet Lad. Giotto, amongst the crowd in a crucifixion scene, paints a soldier with a band of pseudo-Mongol script about his helmet. Go figure.
This lad has the feel of Temujin if not the features. Temujin spends much of the book in a pother about his head wear; and the weight of kingship sits heavily upon him. There's Jamuqa's trophy helmet too, though that's teardrop shape, black iron smoothly damascened with gold dragons in flight. Description of a real helmet – I'll give you that one later.
Published on January 13, 2012 16:14