[Bryn-gwlad] New Gar...er...Costuming question

[Sunny Briscoe]

Hi Uther,

I am fond of the Viking Answer Lady's Website (belonging to Mistress Gunnvör
silfrahárr)  http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ and I asked Coblaith a similar
question the other day and got the following links:

> What were people wearing in 890 (anywhere in Europe?).


Thora Sharptooth's got good resources on what the Norse were wearing
<http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikresource.html>.  The one thing she
lacks is photos; look to the Hurstwic site for that
<http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/
clothing.htm>.  (Let me know if you want additional links to "how to"
stuff for Norse women's overdresses.)

Finnacan Dub's "Early Gaelic Dress:  An Introduction"
<http://b-b-fam.home.texas.net/Coblaith/EarlyGaelicDress/default.html>
covers what the Irish and Scottish Gaels were wearing.

I found an illustration from around 900, made in northern France, that shows
male dress for the period
<http://www.mnemosyne.org/mmw/fullsize/mmw_10b5_001r_init.jpg>.

Regia Anglorum's period starts a little later--around 950--but their
gear <http://www.regia.org/members/basclot.htm> resembles what you see on
the above three sites.  I think it likely that the Anglo-Saxons were wearing
similar stuff around the turn of the century; it seems to be the norm for
that period in northern Europe.
I will probably be dressing as the Danish would, and have been doing a bit
of research on the clothes.  If anyone would be interested in a sewing day
(sometime after our Fall Baronial event), let me know.  The Norse styles
look very simple, and would be very easy to put together.

Elisabetta



On 8/12/07, michael young <uther42 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyboby have any sources/websites for 9th or 10th century Anglo-Saxon
> clothes?
>
> Uther
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