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==Forage style cap
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==Straw hats==
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*There is apparently an Anglo-Saxon manuscript that shows a straw hat but we have been unable to find it.
*A later example can be found in Eadwine Psalter, Cambs. Trinity College MS R.17.1 f.?? c.1147AD
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It is very unlikely that any straw item would survive to be found. Always on poor people. This kind of hat was depicted in use during the Roman period and again in the C12th. It is likely that such a simple hat was in use by common agricultural workers throughout the Viking Age.
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== Fur rimmed ‘Viking’ hats ==
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*Ibn Fadlan's Account of the Rus (c.921AD) “They put a hat of brocade and fur on him [The dead chieftain]”
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Geijer states that no such thing was found in Birka, but she does quote Ibn Fadlan (in her discussion & comparison) who described the clothing of a dead Swedish Chieftain he met at the Volga. Ibn describes the Swedish Chieftain as having been dressed for burial (among other things) in "a golden hat with sable fur". Geijer does go on to say that this is not typical Swedish Viking clothing but is an example of how men would have picked up and adopted exotic bits of clothing whilst on their travels. Hence the apparent variation in male clothing and uniformity in female clothing found at Birka [GEIJER 1938:p.150].
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