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so tell me. is the norman haircut more like a bowl cut or a inverted V on the back of the head? any evidence or proof of the theories?

More like everything behind a line drawn from the back edges of the ears over the point of the skull get shaved or cropped short, so there's just a thatch on top of the head. Sort of like a bad toupee.

I once tutored a college football player who wore his hair in a Norman cut. He thought it was his own invention. He was crestfallen ( sorry ) to learn that it was almost 1000 years old...

Any help in the Bayeux Tapestry? - http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/textiles/bayeux/ - nice thumbnail image indices. Pages including and following the "Next" page - http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/ ... ndex1.html - have a lot of details, close enough to see individual stitches.

The only trick (for me) is to distinguish the Normans from the English.

At any rate, most of them seem to have bowl cuts, with bangs in the front.

OTOH, I do seem to recall a haircut that was like a bowl cut, but everything behind the ears was shaved, so that the area covered by hair was like the peel from 1/4 of an orange.

Have a look at http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/hasting ... aircut.htm - and for the contemporary evidence, see http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tap ... ct7_9.html - the top panel has Harold and his Englishmen on the far left, with Bill the Bastard (enthroned) and his fellow Norman fashion victims to his right.

I've been growing mine out since early summer! None of that silly Norman backwards baldness for me!

Back in the early '70s Bill Marlow (Wilhelm Greycloak) would trim his in a Norman cut. Since he was in the National Guard (after US Army duty in Viet Nam) he'd just get a buzz-cut the next day and nobody noticed.

We should be careful with this, it could catch on like backwards ballcaps! (...and we always knew the Normans were a little backwards.)

Ut!

Chuck I will be joining you in the silly Norman haircut for the weekend! I have been growing out my hair for 6 weeks now.

James B. wrote:Chuck I will be joining you in the silly Norman haircut for the weekend! I have been growing out my hair for 6 weeks now.

hehehe you know what kinda mop ive got. havent had a cut in like 3 months or so!

so straight across from ear to ear?

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/b ... e04_20.jpg

Me on the right... the girls go crazy

~Wil

Good way to keep the head lice down....

Then of course, there's the Englisc haircut . . . see http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/Hastings2000.html !

hehehe whatya think? flonzy on the left, myself on the right

Wolf wrote:hehehe whatya think? flonzy on the left, myself on the right

I want to see what you guys look like today!

Bummer, we forgot to do group shots. I didn't get all that many pictures.

Heh. I did the Henry V cut for the Ren Faire I help out with every year in October. It was a hoot.

Old Male Barber: Okay, what will it be?

Jehan de Pelham: Allright, check it out... I am asking for the military hair style of the late 14th century. Here's how you do it...

Barber: Hokay!

I am going to maintain it for a couple of Midrealm events--might as well, eh?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

ooooo, bet you had to beat Tanc off with a stick once he saw your sexy haircuts.

Flonzy looks like the squire to Sir Sherwin Williams!

What's that make Wolf?
Vassal of Lord Campbell of Chicken Noodle?

I got a norman cut about 15 years ago. It was supposed to be a regular haircut, but the barber must have had a rough time getting the back even,so he kept takingoff a little more and a little more. I didnt know what was going on untill he finally finished and spun me round in the chair towrds the mirror. It looked like he put a bowl over my head. I said" You gave me a Norman cut" He said "I'm really sorry, this haircuts free..." I was never so annoyed and amused at the same time.....I dont think he new what a norman was...but he knew he sure mucked up....Otto

Bascot wrote:Good way to keep the head lice down....

D*mn right; they'd be too embaressed to live there.