The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

[206]. Laxdæla, 46.

[207]. Fornmanna Sögur; Harald Hardradi.

[208]. Magn. Baref., 8.

[209]. Flateyjarbok, i. 481.

[210]. In the time of Olaf Kyrri, before 1100, very tight hosur were used. Blue trousers and blue and grey hosur are mentioned.

[211]. Baldakin, stuff or skin from Bagdad.

[212]. It seems to have been the custom to fold up the edges of the skikkja (Magnus Erlingson, ch. 13, 37; Magnus Barefoot, 8; Flateyjarbók, iii.).

[213]. Brooches = fibulæ.

[214]. Cf. also for cloaks.—Egil’s Saga, c. 77; Eyrbyggja, c. 37; Vigaglum’s Saga, c. 6; Ljosvetninga Saga, c. 17.

[215]. Valaskikkja = Welsh (foreign) cloak.