There are hardly any examples of this from the saga literature. One episode, in the Saga of the People of Laxardal, set in the ninth and tenth centuries, sees a man divorce his wife on the grounds that she wears trousers “like a masculine woman”, having previously complained about all the terrible things that can supposedly happen if “women go about dressed as men”. There are also female equivalents, when women end a marriage because of their husbands’ supposed effeminacy, as manifested in their wearing shirts cut so low as to expose the chest (it is not irrelevant that—as in this case—married
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