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==Shift Material==
===Linen===
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* Birka, Sweden (C9th-10th) 61 graves containing bleached or white linen shifts. Hägg categorises these into two categories, smooth and pleated [HAGG 1986]
|Discussion=In both types of shift, though far more common in the pleated shift, the neck hole was slit and fastened with a small round brooch or, more rarely, with a small penannular. The datable graves from Birka containing remnants of shifts show a trend where the smooth linen shift becomes less popular in the C10th (JBS) while the pleated shift becomes more so (HAGG 1986).The datable graves from Birka containing remnants of shifts show an increase in the number of pleated shifts in the later stages of the site (JBS) (HAGG 1986).
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===Wool===
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==Style==
=== Smooth Linen ===
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===Pleated Linen===
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===Sleevless===
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* Luna MS Cotton Bv f.47r
* Evangeliar (Codex purpureus), Munchen Staatsbibliothek Cod lat. 23 632, f.24v. 9thC Germany. The child murders, showing the mothers with sleevless shifts, with deep front splits at the neck.* Rome, San Paolo fuori le Mura, Bible of S. Paolo furi le Mura. C9th
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===Tight, rucked sleeves===
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===Visible short (above ankle) shift [POOR]===
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* Woman on horse - some Viking stone?, interpreted to be a short shift [EWING 2007]
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==Decoration==
===Bleached or Natural cloth===
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===Dyed Cloth===
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|Archaeology= |Discussion* Birka, Sweden (----) In Birka all fragments of linen assumed to be under shifts are of a light colour, either natural or white. (HAGG 1986, p.61)
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Although some dyed and patterned linen was found at Birka it appears to have been used for the hangerocks or as decoration (HAGG 1986, p.61).
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===Embroidery===
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==Fastenings==
===BroochesSmall neck brooches=== {{Guide1For more information see [[Brooches - Viking Styles#Small convex round brooches|4|Optional}}Small neck brooches]].
{{Evidence
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* Birka, Sweden (----) some found with linen shifts.
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In the area around the Baltic Sea small penannulars were sometimes used for the same purpose [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980: p.29]
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==References==
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[[Category:Women's Clothing]]
