Byrnie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 78 anagrams from letters in byrnie (beinry).
1325-75; Middle English byrny, Scottish variant of brynie, brinie Old Norse brynja, cognate with Old English byrne coat of mail, Old High German brunnia
She deplores the byrnie, shield and helm, symbols of her godhead, that he has torn from her.
The defensive armour consisted of helmet, shield, and byrnie.
In early Saxon times, a protective garment called a byrnie was worn by the leaders.
He had but one arm, for the other was hewn from him, and the byrnie on his left side was red with blood.
But Blacktooth's byrnie was good, nor did the sword bite into it.
The Anglo-Saxon poets let us know that chieftains and warriors wore a body defence, which they call a byrnie or a battle-sark.
It entered his side through a cleft in his byrnie and pierced him deep.
The blow falls on his shield, and shears off the side of it, then strikes the byrnie beneath, but lightly.
It is true that only one trace of a byrnie, and that apparently not of ring-mail, has so far been found in an Anglo-Saxon grave.
Thorwald Thorwaldson tottered and went down, for a hurled axe had cleft him between helm and byrnie.