Geteld Decoration???
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:20 am
Hiya Geteld Fans & Owners (and those ambitious to be one of the two),
I have a "Viking" event coming up in a couple of weeks and am ambitious to try making a geteld (Anglo-Saxon form of tent depicted in various 9-12th century illustrations). I have all the info I require for that task, but I am curious about decoration.
I remember seeing a recreation of a geteld online, quite a while ago, that had the ridge "sleeve" decorated with some sort of linework design. Todays online search provided the following description from the Bury Psalter, on The History of Tents site (but no actual image):
[quote]A single geteld, ridge decoration consisting of lines and dots, heavy black three pronged decoration on the centre of the roof, descending from the ridge line, the inscription reads “SCI Sâ€Â
I have a "Viking" event coming up in a couple of weeks and am ambitious to try making a geteld (Anglo-Saxon form of tent depicted in various 9-12th century illustrations). I have all the info I require for that task, but I am curious about decoration.
I remember seeing a recreation of a geteld online, quite a while ago, that had the ridge "sleeve" decorated with some sort of linework design. Todays online search provided the following description from the Bury Psalter, on The History of Tents site (but no actual image):
[quote]A single geteld, ridge decoration consisting of lines and dots, heavy black three pronged decoration on the centre of the roof, descending from the ridge line, the inscription reads “SCI Sâ€Â