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DRESS OF WOMEX. 



on kirtles, which left a track iu the dew " (Gisli Sursson's 

 Saga, p. 67). 



From the four representations here given, we get an idea of 

 the dress of women, and the peculiar manner in which they 

 arranged their hair. The long trailing dress reminds us of the 

 descriptions in the Sagas. Three of the figures are presenting 

 drinking-horns to some persons unseen. On the Hallingbro 

 stone l a woman, dressed in a somewhat similar way, is pre- 

 senting a drinking-horn to a warrior on horseback. 



Fig. 1160. Chain of silver. Real size. Found in 

 the interior of a sepulchral chamber in a 

 tumulus. Earlier iron age. Norway. 



Fig. 1161. Silver (llth 

 century) ; real size. 

 Found with Arabic, Ger- 

 man, and old English 

 coins. Oland. 



Figs. 1162. 1163. 1164. 

 Real size. Sweden. 



1165. 1166. 



Hanging orna- 

 ment. Real 

 size. Sweden 



The women's outer garments were more or less similar to 

 those of men. The principal were the skikkya and mottul, a kind 

 of cloak w 7 orn by high-born women, without sleeves, usually 

 fastened on the breast with a fibula, and the tygla mottul (strap- 

 cloak), used by men and women, sometimes with costly 

 borders (hladbwnn), and lined with fur; but the term kvenn- 

 skikkja (woman's cloak) implies some difference between theirs 



1 See p. 154. 



