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Sword Scabbards

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* Scar (OWEN and DALLAND 1999, p.109-112)
* Saint-Denis, France, c.869 (MONTEMBAULT 1998, p.60)
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== Scabbard chapes ==
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=== Introduction ===
Peter Paulsen comprehensibly covered the subject of Viking sword scabbards in 1953 in his book Schwertortbänder der Wikingerzeit. Unfortunately we do not have access to this volume and so have created our own typology as detailed below.
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=== Borre Style 1 ===
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=== Borre Style 2 ===
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=== Borre Style 3 ===
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=== Jelling ===
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=== Bird (Falcon) style ===
''Otherwise known as the 'Birka Bird'. Dated from late C9th to early C11th although at its most popular in the first half of the C10th. Found mainly in Eastern Europe from Sweden to Byzantium''
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