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    Viking men and women wore distinct styles of dress when they first arrived in England. Men wore sleeved tunics, trousers, and cloaks or fur coats. Women wore long pleated linen dresses with short sleeves and shoulder straps, and sometimes covered their hair. Archaeological evidence from sites like Coppergate provide details of Viking dress, including silk caps, wool socks, leather boots, belts, and brooches. Over time, Viking women adopted the long Anglo-Saxon tunic as well.

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    Viking men and women wore distinct styles of dress when they first arrived in England. Men wore sleeved tunics, trousers, and cloaks or fur coats. Women wore long pleated linen dresses with short sleeves and shoulder straps, and sometimes covered their hair. Archaeological evidence from sites like Coppergate provide details of Viking dress, including silk caps, wool socks, leather boots, belts, and brooches. Over time, Viking women adopted the long Anglo-Saxon tunic as well.

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    Viking men and women wore distinct styles of dress when they first arrived in England. Men wore sleeved tunics, trousers, and cloaks or fur coats. Women wore long pleated linen dresses with short sleeves and shoulder straps, and sometimes covered their hair. Archaeological evidence from sites like Coppergate provide details of Viking dress, including silk caps, wool socks, leather boots, belts, and brooches. Over time, Viking women adopted the long Anglo-Saxon tunic as well.

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    VIKING DRESS

    1. Dress
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    Penny Walton

    When Viking raiders first arrived in England, the Clothes might be edged with coloured
    men wore sleeved tunics and trousers. Beneath braids, sometimes trimmed with gold thread for
    the tunic might be a linen shirt; over the tunic a the wealthy,
    cloak of fur or heavy cloth, with a long shaggy Anglo-Saxon men had the same style of
    pile, was worn in cold weather. leather was clothes as the Vikings, but not so the women,
    used for shoes, pointed caps, and the belts from who had stopped wearing such dresses over a
    which their swords and knives hung. hundred years before, and would see them as
    later, when the Vikings began to settle very old-fashioned. Instead they wore loose
    down in England, their women joined them, tunics over long-sleeved dresses with cuffs, and
    They wore long, pleated linen dresses with short 7 ,} '\ covered their hair with a head-<Jress.
    sleeves, over which a length of cloth held up by to"; ::oJ~ After some years it seems that the
    shoulder straps was wrapped round the body "" Viking women learned to wear the
    under the arms. A shawl would help to keep long tunic too.
    them warm. They tied their hair in a knot and
    sometimes wore a headband, with ribbons An Anglo-Saxonwoman
    hanging down at the back. ~~~ with head-dress.
    Beads of glass and amber
    were worn, as well as pairs
    of brooches which fastened
    the shoulder straps and
    also had keys and other
    odd items hanging
    from them. Both
    men and women
    I iked bright
    colours -red,
    yellow, purple,
    blue and green.

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    A Viking man. A Viking woman


    Anglo-Saxonmen with pairedbrooches '
    woresimilarclothes. andknottedhair.

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    The silk cap found at Coppergate, We know about dress in those days from
    as It would have beenworn. cemetery excavations In ScandinaVia and from

    drawings that decorated Anglo-Saxon


    manuscripts. Now our knowledge has been
    further increased by finds of clothing from
    Coppergate.
    One such item was a cap made from a
    rectangle of silk, folded in half and stitched up
    the back. Other traces of stitching show that
    ribbons had once been attached to the front on
    either side. Finds of silk caps) from other sites
    suggest that they were a popular fashion
    among Viking women in later times,
    perhaps because as Christians they were
    expected to cover their heads.

    Another Coppergate item was a wool sock,


    probably white when made, with a narrow band
    of red above the ankle. Stitches around a repair
    patch show that the sock had been worn a good
    deal!
    There were several complete boots and
    shoes, and fragments of many others. The
    boots, which reached just above the ankle, had
    a flap which passed over the front of the foot
    and fastened at the side with a toggle. Some
    were low-cut, like slippers.

    The Viking Age woollen sock found at Coppergate

    One of the many leather boots found


    during the dig. Thisone is. tied with
    a leatherthong.

    Buckres and strap-ends for belts, and


    brooches for fastening tunics and cloaks have
    also been found, as well as a small pouch of
    costly silk which hung from the neck and may
    A silk pouch, decorated with a cross. .once have held a saint's relics.

    ~.,..

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