User blog comment:Urbancommando77/Celt vs Barbarian/@comment-4476906-20111012210325/@comment-181289-20111012212254

The Celts did in fact invent chain mail the earliest known example being found the a Celtic buril site, and I'm farily certain it was the Visigoths where the one's who finally struck the killing blow to the western Romans Empire not the Ostrogoths