Anglo Saxon man in a nightshirt and Anglo Saxon man in a shroud.

Anglo Saxon man in a nightshirt and Anglo Saxon man in a shroud.

Anglo Saxon man in a shirt (50).. . "The Anglo Saxons wore, immediately next to the body, a shirt which also served as their nightwear, as seen in Fig. 50.". . An Anglo Saxon in a shroud (51).. . "The corpse is washed in pure water, then re-dressed in a shirt under clothes analogous to the rank of the deceased; finally it is dressed in a shroud, in the manner of the figure covered in 51, until the moment of burial. At that moment, the shroud is closed, after placing a handkerchief or sudarium (usually white, but sometimes blue, red or pink) over the face." . . Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).

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