QuickCheck: Did medieval knights need to use a crane to mount a horse?


The Palácio Real weapons room in Madrid, Spain. Photography by: www.geocities.com/opgago/ Osvaldo Gag / fotografar.net

THE armour that knights wore was so heavy that they had to be hoisted onto their horses with a crane.

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