[Bryn-gwlad] Viking Age beads (was: Candlemas costume planning)

[Sunny Briscoe]

What an amazing site!  Thank you!

Elisabetta

On 10/5/07, Coblaith Mhuimhneach <Coblaith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Elisabetta wrote:
> > I have been doing some research on clothing worn by Norse cultures
> > around the time period we are using for our Candlemas Event (890 I
> > think).. . .I have been looking for beads for a "Viking" bead
> > necklace. . .most of the beads that I find come in strands that have
> > many more than I need. . .
> >
> > . . .I would like to propose a bead swap where we bring in beads we no
> > longer want to trade with others for beads we do. I would like to do
> > this at Populace in the Park sometime.
>
> Blue Bains replied:
> > I have some glass beads that I would be more than happy to bring to
> > pip, not sure how many of them would be considered " period" as I am
> > new and not quite educated as of yet. I would love to trade beads and
> > information as well.
>
>
> Well, you can see photos of over 80 actual, honest-to-goodness Viking
> Age beads, found at Frojel (in Gotland) at
> <http://www.arkeodok.com/Viking%20single%20beads/index.html>.  There's
> a CD-ROM with more <http://www.arkeodok.com/Vikingcd.html>, and a few
> samples from that can be seen at <http://www.arkeodok.com/indexb.html>;
> I don't know whether they're also in the picture gallery I mentioned
> first.
>
> More info on beads from Frojel, including photos and drawings of
> examples, can be found at
> <http://frojel.hgo.se/Object%20Gallery/beadsmain.html>.
>
> The York Archaeological Trust's Online Picture Gallery
> <http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/piclib/photos.php> includes some
> beads from Coppergate.  Just put "bead" into the on-site search engine.
>   Or click on "Viking York" in the menu to the left of your screen to
> see all artifacts from the period, beads included.
>
> The Swedish Museum of National Antiquities' site has photos of quite a
> number of beads from this period, too.  Go to the search engine
> <http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp> and, under "Sakord", input
> "pärla".  (If you don't know how to make an umlaut over the "a" on your
> computer, click "Lista sakord" and then select "pärla" from the list.)
> Under "Datering", select "vikingatid" from both the "fran" and "till"
> pull-down menus.  Click "Sök".
>
>
> After studying these images, you might not be able to say that any
> given type of bead *didn't* exist in northern Europe in the Viking Age,
> but you'll be able to recognize a number of types that did, and select
> accordingly.
>
>
> Coblaith Mhuimhneach
> <mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
>
>
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