User blog comment:MilenHD/Viking vs Zande/@comment-25242759-20160805071623/@comment-112.198.64.34-20160815141758

Actually, leather was far more expensive for a casual warrior than metal. Besides wintercloth and fur/hdie caots, there are little to no evidence that Viking (or any European warrrior classes really) wore "leather armor". It's more accurate that they wore either lamellar or mail armor, or basically just fought with only ordinary clothes and shields.