ANST - Viking Brooches - More than Tortoise-Shells

[K.Drennan]

Cool!! Gunnora, Please keep us posted. Maybe it was just a fashion
FAD? <G>

Wrenne Blackthorne

Gunnora said something like:
 
> I wanted to share an interesting discovery that I made today.  
> 
> We've always thought that pretty much all Viking women everywhere wore
> those oval "tortoise shell" brooches to hold upo their hangerrockr
> (apron-dresses).  On occasion, we've seen round brooches (most often
> Anglo-Saxon or Finnish, but occasionally in Scandinavia as well).
> 
> I've been following the excavation of the Gotlandic harbor at Frojel
during
> the summer of 1998, and in Week 30
> (http://viking.hgo.se/frojel/week30.html) of the excavations they
found a
> gravesite in which the woman's brooches were two elaborate animal
heads,
> made of bronze.  The shape is roughly triangular, and they are
covered in
> knotwork reminiscent of some of the woodcarving in the Oseberg ship
grave.
> 
> These are so unusual that I thought I'd share the reference.  Was this
> woman just a maverick trend-setter?  Or were there lots of different
brooch
> types, with oval brooches just being the bulk of what we've seen up
to now?  
> 
> I've written to the archaeologist in charge to see if he has more
> information about this unusual pair of brooches.
> 
> 
> Wæs Þu Hæl (Waes Thu Hael)
> 
> ::GUNNORA::
> 
> Gunnora Hallakarva
> Herskerinde
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> Ek eigi visa þik hversu oðlask Lofstirrlauf-Kruna heldr hversu na
Hersis-Aðal
> (Ek eigi thik hversu odhlask Lofstirrlauf-Kruna heldr hversu na
Hersis-Adhal)

==

The Goddess is alive and Magick is afoot!!





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