{"id":363,"date":"2009-10-08T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-10-08T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:17:11","slug":"things-ive-been-saving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve been saving up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohhh&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=7047222&#038;section_id=6286341\">Halloween Poppets<\/a>! You know, my birthday is nowhere near Halloween, but it could have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Probably everyone&#8217;s seen this by now. The Skjoldehamn outfit was from a bog body dating to 1050CE or so, found in Norway the 1936. The body was poorly preserved, but the clothes were in fabulous shape. A museum group has been working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andoy.historielag.org\/skjoldeforedrag_09.htm\">reconstruction<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/nyheter\/distrikt\/nordland\/1.6799676\">more<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vol.no\/nyhet.asp?F=F&#038;N=26459\">more<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lofotr.no\/Siste_nytt_63.html\">more<\/a>). The body was badly decomposed, and it was unsure for a long time whether it was male or female. It was found with a knife, and wearing pants, but is now believed to be female. Rebecca Lucas has an English summary and description of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medieval-baltic.us\/skjold.html\">the hood<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/skjold.jpg\" alt=\"Norse clothing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vol.no\/nyhet.asp?F=F&#038;N=26459\">Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a very practical outfit, but unlike most of what we think of as Viking women&#8217;s clothing. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And one last link, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gla.ac.uk\/SESLL\/EngLang\/ihsl\/projects\/ASPNS\/bib12.htm\">Anglo-Saxon Dye and Textile History Bibliography<\/a>. Yay research! (Actually, a whole collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gla.ac.uk\/SESLL\/EngLang\/ihsl\/projects\/ASPNS\/bib.htm\">bibliographies<\/a> from the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohhh&#8230;. Halloween Poppets! You know, my birthday is nowhere near Halloween, but it could have been&#8230; Probably everyone&#8217;s seen this by now. The Skjoldehamn outfit was from a bog body dating to 1050CE or so, found in Norway the 1936. The body was poorly preserved, but the clothes were in fabulous shape. A museum group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-vikings","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}