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Burlap Syndrome is the tendency of [[medievalists]] to assume that everyone who lived in the [[Migration Era |
Burlap Syndrome is the tendency of [[medievalists]] to assume that everyone who lived in the [[Migration Era|Viking]] wore filthy, poorly constructed, largely brown clothes. This impression has been well entrenched in the modern mind by Hollywood, and can be difficult to overcome. |
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Burlap Syndrome is the tendency of medievalists to assume that everyone who lived in the Viking wore filthy, poorly constructed, largely brown clothes. This impression has been well entrenched in the modern mind by Hollywood, and can be difficult to overcome.
