The Armour Archive

As it's getting colder, we sure are seeing a lot of threads about head coverings, so I thought I'd ask a quick question.
As a 1050's or so Norse man, what would be the best and more appropate head covering to keep one's ears and cheeck warm in the harsh winds of central Arkansas!
Any help is welcomed!
Thanks all

http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drak ... mmossa.pdf
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/manshat.html

Hoods are also an option, but I'm having a hard time finding an online picture of a Scandinavian hood from around the 11th century. I think there's one from Hedeby; there's also the Sunnfjord hood.

I also had a hard time trying to rescearch Scand. hoods. I have a very nice wool hat, but the ears stay cold. I wanted to do something more period, surly they had something. Was hood the most common? What is the estimate of the Sunnfjord hood?
Thanks so much for your help!

bigjon wrote:What is the estimate of the Sunnfjord hood?

It's not clear from the website -- contact Marc Carlson (his email address is here) for more information.

The Vikings site has a pattern for the Heddeby Hood, although to be honest I can't make heads or tails of it!!

Gwen

"Unfortunately, my source for the Sunnfjord is Bockstensmannen och hans drakt, and it doesn't give me that information. I have a suspicion that it's fairly recent actually, and I should probably remove it.

Marc Carlson"

This was Marc Carlson's reply to a e-mail I sent him.

I've looked for the Hed. Hood, but still I'm finding almost nothing on it.

If i remember my "Bockstensmannen och hans dräkt" correctly the sunnfjord hood is an example of that hoods are in use in modern times, it's from the 1940s or something.

Jelling dragon sells an Hedeby hood, see:
http://www.jelldragon.com/viking_hats.htm

/R

thanks, I guess I've over looked that hood, when visiting theyre site.
so basically hoods haven't really changed from the ones in later period, ie 1300+

Black Swan Designs wrote:The Vikings site has a pattern for the Heddeby Hood, although to be honest I can't make heads or tails of it!!

Gwen

I cut out the pieces (in miniature) and played around with them but I can't come up with anything that would fit a human body. I can't figure out how there are enough pieces to give sufficient volume to the mantle (the part that rests on the shoulders).

The actual find is described in Häggs "Die Textilfunde aus der Siedlung und aus den Gräbern von Haithabu : Beschreibung und Gliederung" (pages 55-60, Halvgrim might have something on this?), Jelling Dragons hood is a simplified interpretation of the surviving fragments.

/R

T. Finkas wrote:I cut out the pieces (in miniature) and played around with them but I can't come up with anything that would fit a human body. I can't figure out how there are enough pieces to give sufficient volume to the mantle (the part that rests on the shoulders).

Glad to know I am not the only one not figuring the pattern out.

OK, now that I know it's not just me being spacially challenged I'll write to the AO for the Vikes and see if he can help sort it out. I thought I was being especially dense.

Gwen