Images of Women's Dress in Later 14th Cen Denmark - The Mills-Kronberg Collection

[ragnvaeig]

At this Pennsic's Scotch & Cigars party, lanome introduced me to someone who shares a couple of my "eventually" research interests: post-Viking Scandinavia, and the 14th century. Specifically, she was asking me if I knew anything about 1380s women's clothing that would be typically Danish. I said I didn't know off the top of my head, but that I'd try

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[frualeydis]

Having done my PhD on medieval clothing in Sweden and Norway I would say that: no, there no specific way the Danish women were dressed that differed from for exampel Swedish or northern German women.

Since my dissertation is available online (https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/16894) you could point here there too. Even if only the summary is in English.

/Eva

[ragnvaeig]

I'm given to understand that she at least reads Danish, so I'll send it to her anyway. And I've passed your statement along to her. I couldn't think of a way it would have been different, myself, but that's very much more your area than mine. Thank you.

[sigkit]

Post-viking Scandinavia finally narrowed down to a preference for the 14th century is my favorite research area (besides the current general toys). I started a yahoo group a few years ago as a place to consolidate information I was finding and so I would not have to re-type when asked questions (rare but recurring). There was some great input from others as well. It has been very quite for a year and a half but there is still data in there. I've been thinking on bringing it back up. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MedScand/

[ragnvaeig]

I'll have to check that out when I'm done doing my post-Pennsic mending/alterations. Thank you!

[gwacie]

You've seen this one I'm sure:
http://www.aftenposten.no/fakta/innsikt/article1721709.ece

But I still think it's cool ;)

[ragnvaeig]

Marianne has also just done a NESAT bit on new non-visible-spectrum analyses of the Oseberg textiles, which is also pretty cool!