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Many people often make the comment that brimmed straw or felt hats must have been used by people living during the Viking Age as there is good solid evidence both before and after the period. This article aims to test this supposition.<br>
Basic hats made from felted animal fibers or from plaited plant fibers have probably been in use well into prehistory.<br>
==BC==
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==Saxon 500-1100AD1066AD==Odin is described as wearing as wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a blue coat in ??????? Sagathe C13th Bagler Sagas. This may refer to a straw hat.
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T83 fol.1r.jpg|Bee Keeper 1025-1050AD
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==Norman 11001066-1250AD==
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Cam MS253 f.1.jpg|C11th / C12th
Bury Gospel hats.jpg|Bury Gospel c.1130AD
Hat Edwine Psalter f.62v.JPG|Edwine Psalter c.1160AD
Maciejowski hats.jpg|Maciejowski c.1250AD
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==After 1250AD ==
A hat found in Novgorod, Russia and dated to the C14th is made of roots 'in the manner of a rush hat' and 'shaped like a straw hat' [EWING 2007:p.120] [http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000170/st025.shtml (Historic Russia)]<br>
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