varr. (after mod. Scand. forms) of WADMAL.
[1797. Stat. Acc. Scot., XIV. 326. The old men and women … continue to wear good strong black clothes without dying, called by the ancient Norse, Vadmell.]
1851. Thorpe, Northern Myth., I. 112. I am Kraka, Coal-black in vadmel!
1881. Du Chaillu, Land of Midnight Sun, II. 78. The tent was made of coarse heavy vadmal.
