[h-cost] Re: Viking Women's Dress - New Discoveries

[Beth and Bob Matney]

There has been a bit of discussion about this on 
the Norsefolk_2 list. Here is an image of her reconstruction:

see bottom of http://www.uu.se/press/pm.php?id=48
http://www.newsdesk.se/pressroom/uu/image/view/pm_vikingakvinna1-5825
Beth

At 01:01 PM 2/12/2008, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:39:28 +0000
From: Linda Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I came across this news item, and thought it might interest some group
members:-

"Women who lived in the major Viking settlement called Birka in the 9th
and 10th centuries dressed in a much more provocative manner than
previously believed. ...  When the area around Lake Mälaren was
Christianized about a century later, women’s dress style became more
modest, according to archaeologist Annika Larsson."

It's from "The Local - Sweden's News in English"
http://www.thelocal.se/9950/20080211/

What a pity there are no pictures of the reconstruction!

Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.)

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