early medieval dress clotild blue grey brown Middeleeuwse schilden en beukelaars sleeveless surcottes were worn by

sleeveless surcottes were worn by the working class

This type had a broader blade and grip than the popular Pompeii type gladius

and water repellent

and weighs 879 grams

It was a modern sword for its era

early medieval dress clotild blue grey brown Middeleeuwse schilden en beukelaars sleeveless surcottes were worn byThe dress is based on a sixth century archaeological excavation of clothing fragments found in a women's grave near present day Dortmund. Early medieval images in illuminated manuscripts from the eighth and ninth centuries offer a more complete picture of this type of clothing, such as the Stuttgart Psalterium. The dress is particularly well suited to re enacting and LARP of the Great Migrations, Merovingians and Franks. Manuscripts show that dresses