Authentic style of shoes?

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Bleddyn De Caldicot
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Authentic style of shoes?

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wondering if these are accurate? http://tn1-5.pv.deviantart.com/fs17/150/f/2007/161/8/0/Viking_shoes_by_huldremor_by_Shadow_of_Yggdrasil.jpg The website calls them viking shoes. Vaugely remember seeing something similar in the history museum in Iceland...cept it said they were made of cloth.
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wouldnt call them viking.
more like 1stc BC thru maybe 5-6th cent AD
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Wolf wrote:wouldnt call them viking.
more like 1stc BC thru maybe 5-6th cent AD
but they did exist at some time? where abouts? (curious cause my girlfriend has a pattern for basically the same thing)
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Those are known as ghilles, or bog shoes. There are dozens of extant examples and different designs to include ones with decorative piercing and tooling.

http://housebarra.com/EP/ep04/14bogshoe.html

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... SHOE55.HTM

http://www.anaperiodshoes.co.uk/

http://www.vicus.org.uk/

http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/clothing2.htm
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