Have we been wrong all along or was this just one of them sexy trends?
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A more Provactive Viking Lady?
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This came up a while ago, with most of the people debunking her "research" as pure speculation, validating a private theory by selectively viewing facts.
Westerners, we have forgotten our origins. We speak all the diverse languages of the country in turn. Indeed the man who was poor at home attains opulence here; he who had no more than a few deiners, finds himself master of a fourtune.
This woman's ideas are well mocked by scholar and serous reenactors alike.
First of all the idea of wearing the linen over the silk goes against all evidence on clothing through out time.
She is missing the context of how things become positioned in a grave; her ideas are only valid if the human body instantly vanished instead of decomposing over time.
First of all the idea of wearing the linen over the silk goes against all evidence on clothing through out time.
She is missing the context of how things become positioned in a grave; her ideas are only valid if the human body instantly vanished instead of decomposing over time.
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