[Sca-cooks] Viking smoothing board

[Stefan li Rous]

Hrothny replied to me with:
<<< Viking-era women were occasionally buried with their boards, just  
like guys
had their shields. (Women also had their weaving swords, which was a  
nice
contrast to men's war swords.) >>>

What's a "weaving sword"? Is that a stick used to tamp down the  
threads running across the loom (weft?) when you are weaving?

Stefan
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