Harry Marinakis wrote: | ||
A couple of Viking scabbards were found to be lined with a textile of some sort - probably wool. The wood core was composed of 2 laths of oak wrapped in linen, and then the whole affair was covered with leather. |
Sorry, I put that badly. I was only referring to 'unwoven' products, making the point that neither fleece nor felt has been found in the corpus of early medieval scabbards, only skin-based products.
In Anglo Saxon England, sheepskin predominates until the late 10th century/early 11th century, the end of the early medieval period (there is only one known example of a textile lined scabbard from the pagan period).