Quote Originally Posted by motorman4life
From several sources.
Viking Age Scotland
The Viking Skirt
The local lads in both Scotland and Ireland knew a good thing when they saw it. So they donned the Viking skirt and, not speaking much Old Norse, called it a kilt.
Lastly, if you are still not convinced, try browsing over to http://www.myclan.com/clanship/tartan/history.php
Lost of info there. All consistent with the above.

Happy reading.
Sorry to argue but none of my references have a viking skirt worn by men. They wore tunic and trousers, sometimes a cloak. The women wore pleated petticoats, if that's any help. Apparently, the viking brooch was copied from Irish/Scot designs.
Don't want to get caught up in yet another kilt origin thread but this concept doesn't work. Do you want me to post my references?

No point in romanticizing the vikings, they were not much more than travelling merchants with bad PR. Not a whole lot better, or worse, than anybody else at the time. No, wait, I'll go with a bit better: they had a structure in a time of chaos.