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We know in fact quite a deal about małe gannents wom during the Viking Age, due in part to fragments of fabrics found at gravesites, but also thanks to various contemporary renderings. Nonę the less, this linen shirt stands out as something uniąue. It is ąuite slmply the only garment found from the period, throughout Scandinavia and Europę alike, which has survived nearly intacL

No doubt the owner was an elegant young man about yiborg, clad in his linen shirt, woolen pants and leather shoes, or possibly boots, a woolen kirtle, and over it a woolen cape draped nonchalantly, fastened at the right with a heavy clasp.