The cap to my folk costume

[frualeydis]

Last tuesday Rickard, Maja and I picked up the cap for my folk costume, which had been mounted by a professional. A picture of it can be seen on the page dedicated to said folk costume. The picture isn't too good, since I took it myself by holding the digital camera in front of me. Rickard was away watching football and Maja isn't much help in this (she very helpfully slept).
BTW our team lost and that sucks.

Comments

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I love the new cap, it looks so cute. She did a great job mounting it!

Totally off topic

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

A friend is researching real Viking/scandinavian feast food. As you know there is little record. Do you have any suggestions on websites or places she can look. She is an Authenticity maven. Any help would be great

Re: Totally off topic

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

There are virtually no written sources from the viking age, the icelandic sagas for example are only written down in the 13th century and how much of them that is older, orally transmitted material is the source of much debate. The oldest recipe collection is the danish Henrik Harpestreng's cookbook from c. 1270. It can be seen here (http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/harp-kkr.htm), but unfortunately only in medieval danish.
Some work has been done by archaeologists working with food remnants from for example Birka. A useful report might be Sven Isaksson's Food and rank in early medieval time, but I have no idea of how to get hold of it. I think the best hing would be to ask at the english forum at

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There are virtually no written sources from the viking age, the icelandic sagas for example are only written down in the 13th century and how much of them that is older, orally transmitted material is the source of much debate. The oldest recipe collection is the danish Henrik Harpestreng's cookbook from c. 1270. It can be seen <a href="http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/harp-kkr.htm">here</a>, but unfortunately only in medieval danish.
Some work has been done by archaeologists working with food remnants from for example Birka. A useful report might be Sven Isaksson's <i>Food and rank in early medieval time</i>, but I have no idea of how to get hold of it. I think the best hing would be to ask at the english forum at <a href="http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=21"<i>Historiska Varldar</i></a>.

Eva

Re: Totally off topic

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Found this site (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikfood.html) which has something to say about viking food.

Eva