frualeydis | Ale viking market. And some shopping (Reply)

This weekend there was a viking fair at Ale Vikingagård, which a "reconstruction" of a viking age great man's house. I haven't been there since Maja was one, but since Rickard now has a driver's license and we belogn to a car pool I thought it would be nice to just make a short trip there (it's something like 40 km from Gothenburg). I also thought that I might find tortoise brooches for my viking apron dress, (reconstrunction from the national museum of antiquties) which I also did. That wasn't the only hsopping, since we also found new shoes for hubby, from Viking leather crafts and som lovely linen for a tunic for Maja. In the Middle Ages linen was only used for underwear in the Nordic countries, but it was probably different in the Viking period and in any case I make some exceptions from authenticity when it comes to childrens' clothes. I don't know if you could dye linen purple, but both madder (red) and woad (blue) can be used on linen so I pretend - it's Maja's favourite colour.