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/* Birka style hats */
*Ibn Fadlan's Account of the Rus (c.921AD) “They put a hat of brocade and fur on him [The dead chieftain]”
*Njals saga and Ljosvetninga saga. Both mention a 'Russian hat' or ''gerzkr hattr'' being given as Kings gifts. Ewing suggests that these may have been similar to the hat described by Ibn Fadlan [EWING 2007:p.119-120]
|Archaeology=
Though there is a lack of evidence for fur hats from archaeology, there is the fragment from a cap, probably of the pill box style, from the Hedeby settlement which was made from a piled fabric (woven fabric with tufts of un-spun, or loosely spun, wool woven or tied into the fabric). This would indicate that fake-fur hats were worn in the Viking Age. [HAGG 1991:p.59] This hat fragment has been dated to around 877AD [HAGG 2015:p.133]
|Discussion =
