A rune cut into a breastplate is not historical, and we would rather say that plainly. Norse fighters who could afford mail did not decorate it with staves. What it is, is the thing that makes a modern harness read as Norse from across a field, and there is no honest reason not to want that if the piece is for display or for an event.
Where the staves are cut
Two pieces are called Nightplate. One is a blackened 16 gauge cuirass with an articulated fauld and runed buckles. The other is an 18 gauge cuirass with pauldrons, a burgundy wool lining, a hooped fauld and a rune plaque. A third Nightplate is the full suit, blackened 18 gauge with articulated pauldrons, gauntlets and sabatons. Skaldplate carries a rune plaque on a bright 18 gauge cuirass with roped edges and a hooped fauld. Runeheart is the plain breastplate with chased knotwork and a leather harness. Legiondrake is the Roman one, a lorica segmentata in banded plate, and Rivetward is the riveted leather brigandine with a rune cut chest plaque.
They sit in plate armor. For your own text instead, see engraved and personalized, and read the Elder Futhark for what the staves mean.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
