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His companions were two strong broad-shouldered fellows, with red wadmal cloaks, over dirty leathern breeches, and with broad swords and daggers in their thickly padded belts, which also appeared to serve them as purses.

The Laplander keeps on his fur, the Russian his wadded garment, the Tartar his sheep-skin, the Shetlander goes about in his house in his wadmal.

He didn't care about the sodden wadmal breeks and tunic that hung around his skin.

“Her kirtle is of kid-skin made,    Her mantle of wadmal grey, Her locks, which shine like gleamy gold,    Adown her shoulders stray.” p. 23Then he rode o’er the meadows green,    And through the brake and thorn, And there did he the maiden find,    She drove her goats from the corn.

Under his tent of coarse wadmal cloth the travellers found shelter, and such rude hospitality as the poor Lap could afford them—in return for which they had to live in the midst of a smoke that nearly put out their eyes.