My Journey as a Viking Age Costumer

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1/31/2014

To add to my collection I now have the book covering animal bones, textiles and textile equipment from Ribe!

Eventually I want to own (or ILL/scan) all of the books covering the major Viking settlements. My current stash is pretty impressive and eventually will all be added to Mendeley so I can churn out a full list of my resources. (Who knew that it would be THAT much work to pull together???)

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keeshea

5/31/2015 02:07:35 am

I am looking for ANY documentation on hats found at Birka. Unfortunately, I keep coming up with dead links or nothing. I spent the entire day at the local university library only to come up empty...please advise

Alfrun ketta

6/4/2015 07:14:13 am

Your best bet is to get the books on Birka from Inter Library Loan (it is not something that most libraries will have). It is a three part series - one has information on each of the graves, one has artifacts and one has textiles and discusses clothing. (Note that I was easily able to obtain the entire set via ILL. The downside is that it is not in English.)

Another book that is useful (and available via ILL) is "Cloth and Clothing of Medieval Europe," there is an article in it about the textiles at Birka as well.

There is a chart with evidence from some of the finds located here that might help as well: https://sites.google.com/site/archoevidence/home/hats It cites which grave which can help you track down what you need if you get your hands on the books.

Alfrun

6/4/2015 07:21:17 am

Oh forgot, this is the textile book I mentioned: Birka: III. Die Textilfunde aus den Gräbern, by Agnes Geijer

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