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DEESS OF MEN. 



border at the sides. These cloaks were fastened by fibulae. 

 The costumes of the Bayeux tapestry agree with the descrip- 

 tions of the Sagas. 



The every-day dress of Geirmund is thus described : 



"He usually dressed thus. He wore a red scarlet kirtle, 

 and over it a grey cloak (feld), and on his head a bearskin 

 cap (hiifa). He wore in his hand a large sword. It was not 

 adorned with silver, and its blade was keen and broad and 

 no rust on it. He called the sword Fotbit (foot-cutter), and 

 never let it go out of his hand " (Laxdaela, c. 29). 



Fig. 1144. Cloth with representation of lion or leopard. J real size. Mammen find. 



Vigaskiita saw " that a large man in a green cloak rode 

 from Thvera (a farm), and knew that it was Glum. He alighted 

 from his horse. He had on a cloak of two colours, black and 

 white" (Viga Glum's Saga, c. 16). 



" Hriit started up in a shirt and linen breeches, and threw 

 over himself a grey cloak, and had in his hand a halberd 

 adorned with gold, which King Harald had given him " 

 (Laxdsela, c. 37). 



" The king had on a red cloak (mottul) 1 with bands, and a 



1 Here the word mottul = mantle, the same garment which elsewhere is called 

 skikkja. 



