Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a armoured woman with a laurel wreath and a sword, with red roses below, on the upper arm.

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Armoured woman with laurel and roses on upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A woman in chainmail and plate armour with a laurel wreath in her dark hair holds a sword upright in front of her. Red roses with green leaves fill the lower part of the design, and the armour is shaded in blues and greys with bold black outlines. The photo shows three angled views of the same sleeve tattoo on a bare upper arm.

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The chainmail had come from a dealer in Newark who swore it had been to Agincourt, and Maud Cordell didn't believe him, but she paid his price anyway because the hauberk sat heavy in the right places. Every Thursday she carried it up the stairs of the Corn Exchange in a bin bag, past the bingo hall, to the back room where the Lincoln Sword Club met under a flickering strip light.

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The laurel came from her mother's bay tree, cut the week after the funeral. It had gone brown at the edges by the time she pinned it into her hair, and the sword she bought off a man at Boston market who wanted cash and no questions. She practised her lunges against a sack of rice and the cloakroom wall until the caretaker, Dennis, stopped complaining and started timing her.

On the last night before the regional bout, a lad of about fifteen came in with his brother's foil and asked if he could try the old blade. His hands shook on the grip. Maud showed him where to set his feet, and didn't tell him she had never won a single bout, only ever stood in the armour and waited for the other person to tire.

When he handed the sword back, the tip had dipped toward the floor. She propped it against the radiator, then picked up the roses a neighbour had left on the stairs that morning, red and loose, and carried them in one at a time to set beside the wreath.

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