Aha!
 
Ok, that's making me much happier...  Two shoes made of legs makes... well, more than one :)
 
Where is the tradition from? 
 
Also, I failed to find "skua" before.  Oops.  Not always so bright, me.
 
The red cloak seems significant by itself.  Similar things keep getting given as gifts along with stuff like gold rings in my recent searching.  Also the named sword seems to suggest maybe not quite opulence, but at least nice dress.
 
(I'm showing my obsessiveness, sorry)
& thanks again.
-Unnr

 
On 07/07/07, Fred and Grace Hatton <hatton@...> wrote:

I don't think he is wearing particularly opulent garb.

Sigurður jarl hafði brúnaðan kyrtil og rauða skikkju og drepið upp
skautunum, fitskúa á fótum. Hann hafði skjöld og sverð er Bastarður var
kallað.
(Magnus saga erlingssonar, ch 13, quoted from Snerpa.is)

"He had a brown colored shirt and red cloak and (with) the skirt (of the
cloak) tucked up, shoes (skúa) made of "fit" on his feet." He had a shield
and a sword which was called Bastard."

Cleasby Vigfusson give hemingr as a synonym for fit: the skin of the shanks
of a hide. There was a tradition of sealing an adoption by having the
adopted son and nearest heirs put their feet into a shoe made from the right
leg of a three year old ox to seal the adoption.

Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa




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