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*A ‘rich baldric’ is mentioned in a Latin will dated to 867AD ([DAVIDSON 1962, : p.119)]*Thidriks Saga, clxxv ‘the whole scabbard (umgerð) is covered in red gold and all of the straps (fetlar) are overlaid with gold and ornamented with fine buckles (goðum sylgjum búnir)’ ([DAVIDSON 1962, : p.188)]*Fetill – baldric ([DAVIDSON 1962, : p.188)]

* Charlemagne scabbard was described by a monk of St. Gall thus “This sword was enclosed first by a scabbard, secondly by a leather of some kind, thirdly by pure white linen rendered stronger by clearest wax and strengthened towards the centre by little raised crosses for the destruction of the heathern” ([DAVIDSON 1962, : p.113)].

*A sword from Essen Minster dated to the late 10th or 11th centuries is covered in stamped gold ([CAMPBELL 1982, :p.171)].*The Sword of St Maurice in the Weltliches Schatzkammer, Vienna has an olive wood scabbard overlaid with panels of gold decorated with repousse figures of Kings ([OAKESHOTT, Records of the Medieval Sword 1991, :p.56)]. Dated to the second half of the 11th century Oakshott believes this to be purely a scabbard used for ceremonial occasions.

* The Hiberno-Norse burial at Cronk Moar, Isle of Man had a scabbard with a leather outer decorated with a raised moulding ([BERSU and WILSON 1966, : p.72)].

* A leather scabbard from Hedeby has 3 diamonds down its front created by two layers of leather ([HAGG 1991, : 265)]

* Scar ([OWEN and DALLAND 1999, : p.109-112)]* Saint-Denis, France, c.869 ([MONTEMBAULT 1998, : p.60) ]