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Sayers, William, “Norse weaves and Irish woolens in medieval Ireland: ME falding”, American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 4 (1992): 43–54.

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“Norse weaves and Irish woolens in medieval Ireland: ME falding”
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43–54
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The ME term falding, used of a heavy cloth type imported from Ireland, has been traced to MIr. fallaing. It is proposed that this, in turn, derives not from ON feldr ‘cloak’ but from faldr ‘fold’, reference being made to the voluminous folds of the garment or to the weaving technique of folding short lengths of yarn around the threads of the warp to give a shaggy exterior finish. Also reviewed are questions of early Irish dress, the medieval cloth trade, and Irish motifs in the Icelandic Laxdæla saga. (source: Cambridge Journals)
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Dennis Groenewegen
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