Olaf Viking Pants, brown

These knickerbocker-style pants are narrow and tight-fitting below your knee and wide and airy upwards from the knee. This allows a unique look with free leg movement. This style pants are normally wrapped with leg bindings or tucked inside high boots below the knee and work especially well with long riding boots. Even though we named these pants as viking pants these suit well to many different eras to many different characters.

The leg bindings/wrappings kept the trousers clean, dry and in good shape and naturally also gave the lower leg some additional protection both when walking in the wild as in combat. You start wrapping your lower leg below instep or heel or around your ankle and stop at the knee. Windings are not included with the trousers. You can choose leg bindings separately to suit your style from our selection.

We don't have too many original Viking Era pants surviving till our times but it's commonly thought that this style pants were especially common amongst the Rus Vikings/Varangians that sailed, conquered and traded along the eastern river routes from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. These river routes through modern day Russia and Eastern Europe are called the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks.

Our Rus' trousers are made of sturdy cotton fabric (twill weave) and are very comfortable to wear. While the top part boasts a quite voluminous cut, the legs are gathered below the knee and taper to the ankle. Additional winningas or legs wraps (available separately in our shop) can be wound over the trousers around the tight-fitting calf part. Please do not be surprised when you unpack the trousers: The waistband has a very wide cut and is therefore equipped with an individually adjustable drawstring for a perfect fit. Side pockets and small side slits on the leg hems allow for even more freedom of movement.

• Available in sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL and 3XL
• Available in black and brown
• 100% cotton
• Side pockets
• Wide waist that it gathered with a drawsting
• Made by Battle-Merchant