December 2, when I wrote about the wide trousers, I mentioned that the seemed to reach only to the knees. The questions then is what the men covered their shins with. From the Viking age there are several remains of narrow wool weaves, woven to the width of 7-12 cm. Most of them are in fishbone twill, but a few are in other types of weaves. These fragments are usually interpreted as remains of puttees, which are used to wind around the shins, either below a pair of wide trousers, or over some other type of trousers.

On the photo, by Iduna Pertoft Sundarp, the puttees are used outside a pair of narrow trousers.