harness

To review the etymology from harness, we must go back to the Nordic, where we find the word herrnest. This term is formed from herr (which can be translated as "army") and nest (referring to "Travel provisions").

Herrnest came to french as harnais, which is the closest etymological antecedent of harness. The concept has several meanings in our idiom, recognized by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in your dictionary.

A harness is a frame with buckles and straps that allows you to secure, hold or carry someone or something.

The harness as a safety and transport element

The harness is called frame which, equipped with buckles and straps, is placed in the body for secure, carry or restrain someone or something. Harnesses are used in different fields.

In sports and recreational activities such as rafting, the kitesurf, the speleology and the mountaineering, for example, a harness is used. It can be about waist harness (which has a single anchor point), integral harness or combo harness.

According to specialists, the waist harness minimizes the risk of injury since, due to the area of ​​the body where the traction is carried out in a fall, it contributes to the elimination of a percentage of the kinetic energy. The integral harness, on the other hand, can cause whiplash if the person falls head down, although it is still used in some cases.

Garrison of Cavalries

It is called a harness, on the other hand, to the lining of a chivalry. It is, therefore, the straps and ornaments that allow riding a horse or that serve for the equine to pull a carriage.

The characteristics of the harnesses were changing with the passage of weather. They arose around the 4th century BC, when the rigid yokes. Then he went to a strap harness that served the same purpose although it distributed the weight of the load better.

The set of straps and ornaments of a cavalry is called a harness.

The harness as armor

Another meaning of harness that collects the RAE makes mention of a set of defensive elements that are attached and secured by buckles and straps. A harness, in this frame, is a armor.

It can be said that a harness or armor is a defensive weapon. This type of clothing provides protection to different areas of the body, minimizing injury and wounded before the attacks of the enemy.

Throughout the history, there were multiple types of harnesses. It is common to remember the metal harnesses that were used in the Middle AgesAlthough armor could also be made from wood, leather, animal bones, or other materials.

Many times the notion of harness refers specifically to the white armor, Full armor or plate armor. Used in the last part of the Middle Ages, it consisted of pieces of iron or steel bound with rivets and straps.

A Catalan municipality

HarnessFinally, it is the name of a municipality which is part of the province of Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia (Spain). It integrates the region of the High ground and is located on the border with the community in Aragon.

The baroque church of the XVII century raised on the remains of a Gothic temple and the edifice of the town hall erected in the century XVI are some of the main points of interest of Harness.