Sweddish Viking - Vikingtida Herreman

Sweddish Viking
Vikingtida Herreman
http://histvarld.historiska.se/histvarld/draekter/vherreman/index.html

Please Note : the Original pages where in Sweddish and I have use Google
Translater to an English translation - its not always a perfect translation.

The Viking Lord gives us a picture of how a little higher

posted it could have looked like during 900-Century in
Mlardalen. The reconstruction is based on grave finds from
Birka, with additions to the findings from Hedeby and York.
It is difficult today to say which approach the Viking society
had on this man, we know so little about Birka and its
function in relation to the hinterland in the paint landscapes,
many different hypotheses and guesses can be taken likely.
He could be a civilian dressed officer in the Royal Hird, but
he would nevertheless be a businessman from the east.

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Cap

Hat was an important garments during the Viking era, not least because it
often, like the other costume parts, gave an indication of the wearer's rank.
This hat is rundkullig and have an ornament in the form of silver brick
band.

According to a theory that is on headgear at Birka will return the military

status. The peaks huvorna gold would represent the highest level, the
rundkulliga with silver ornaments and a mid range rundkulliga without
ornamentation the lowest hierarchical grouped.

Drawing grave 958

As a model for the reconstruction of the hat, we used the findings from grave
958 at Birka. It is a rundkullig hat who could look something like this. Image
after Arbmans "Birka - die Graber", page 383.

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Kaftan
Garments of Kaftan has been found in graves in Scandinavia and the far
east in rusernas kingdom. They were probably originally in the Byzantine
area and was in Viking fashion in Scandinavia optional circuits. This
Kaftan is made in a blgrtt strongly woolen, with silk applications and so-
called posamentarbeten in silver.

Click on pictures for larger image.

Kaftan is lined with a white linen cloth. Linen poorly preserved in the soil,
so I've not found anything. Nevertheless, it is likely that you have used
feed in this type of clothing.

Close-up of fabric

Lining of sleeve

Posamentarbeten is plaiting and sites of fine silver wire into beautiful and
decorative design. Ornamentet occur during the Viking era but is not
always preserved due to soil conditions and others.

Side edging of this kind can be found sometimes on the finer clothes.
During the Viking era have been stopped using the broad band which is
popular during folkvandringstid and vendeltid. Dress ornaments now

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instead of narrow twist ties, or in extreme cases silvertrdsfltningar.

This Kaftan based primarily on finds from Birka grave 832, a chamber tomb
from the 900-century with a man from the upper layer of society. The tomb
archaeologists found the remains apart from Kaftan a sword, a weapon knife,
spear and arrowheads, thyroid, beads with gold foil and a whole horse with silver
seizure galloon. It is certainly about a man high up in Birka's hierarchy, but his
direct function are difficult to fully enter.

Posamenter type P10 and P11 (Geijer).

Trebindig dubbelkypert in the original, not in reconstruction.
Wool type W, roughly blgrtt.

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Srkland

About Viking particular, we know very little. That they have had
something under his skirt is almost certainly, but if the garment was of
wool or linen or some other material, we can not answer. Probably, there
has been a variety of models, where the wool and flax were the most
common material elections.

This particular is bleached linen, and is sewn by a method which does not
have a seam on the top of the shaft. The front and back is instead a single
long piece, which has been cut holes for my head on. Sometimes
considered this way of sewing as older, but there are examples of acid
made after this pattern well into the modern era, so perhaps you should
take a little lightly.

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Bag and belt

In this belt, we see, in addition to the bag, the Viking has hung a comb in a kamfodral and a drinking
horn. Hornet, we had not found anything since the horn material eroded in just a few decades when it is
in the earth. For this reason it is also difficult to know the extent to which they have used this type of
horn in everyday life. For the image blocks, we can see figures that are in articles that could be drinking
horn and has finds from earlier periods of very large drinking horn with gold and silver fittings.

Comb bears the Viking in a kamfodral, something that is repeatedly found in graves at Birka. Where
women have had their combs do not know, but the case has probably not been made of horn or bone. It is
unusual graves without a comb in, so you can conclude that there probably is an important symbolic
meaning behind the tomb of the victim. What impact it has had for the Vikings, we will probably never
know, but we can sit on our guesses. The House may have to do with hygiene, or perhaps with a
mythological and religious beliefs that we do not know today.
A Viking combs are usually made of elk, reindeer antler, or (in the Middle
Ages usually in the legs) that have been carved into slices with an ax and
then raspats and slipats to a form where they nitas up on a rail. After that
saws Monday to the House with the saw teeth. According to previous
research has teeth sawn with dual saw blades to be still away, but as skilled
craftsmen as the Viking must have passed by this excellent, but this means.

The different shaped ornamentation on the chamber rails shows that even
the Vikings been dedicated fashion freaks, just as we are today. We have
even managed to make long runs, which forms the different types of
ornamentation in chronological order and thus can date the other findings
in the tomb on that basis.

Bag

We have chosen a beautiful mnsterpunsad bag. It is very unusual finding

of bags from this time, and they often have found various forms of seizure.
On the other hand, preserved leather rather poorly in the soil which gives
the result that such a bag in many cases would not leave no trace at all.

The bag is facing sewn in 4 mm thick leather, the seams are protected
with double-bes. Below are the back and profile.

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Reference: Drivers from s

This bag is found in the vote Gravfltet in s, Jmtland. In the tomb
found a well-off man buried in a sleigh with his sword and a few other
belongings. By itself, he was also a coin from the middle of the 900-
century, which shows that the grave is the earliest excavated then.

Swords

In this type of sword hgstatusgravar is a common finding, therefore also our

viking equipped with this. What we did not know is if the sword in the tomb
shows the person's everyday life. On the one hand, it is understood about a
sword that bars the time of this man, perhaps he was part of a military
organization. On the other hand, can use to drop the sword in the tombs to be
symbolic, something that is to say "should" have in his grave. A bit like today
we sometimes add a coin to Karon, the ferry man to hell, in the mouth of the
tomb is.

Click on pictures for larger image.

This is a sword with three-button sword and bent over a hero, just this model is
usually dated to around the year 1000. The type is benmd Z and occurs from
England in the west to Russia in the east. A large proportion of these swords
have been found in Finland and the Baltics.

It is not unbelievable that a viking in Sweden would wear such a sword, but he
had certainly not done this in Birka, which was then nedbrunnet. Sigtuna is
perhaps a better proposal, although not all have found a few swords of this model
in Mlardalen.

The Viking sword is made out in the Historical Museum's Viking exhibition.

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Psbyxor ( Trousers )

This type of trousers can be found depicted on the picture stones from
Gotland, and has found the remains of a pair of trousers that are likely to
be of this model at the excavations in Hedeby port. The most common
interpretation is that the Vikings in the East has included an oriental
fashion home. It would indicate that they were in "viking" and that they
could afford this type of material consuming trousers, for just this pair, it
was about 8 meters hand woven woolen.

WIDTH OF CLOTH, however, is only 70 cm, as it was in the Viking era

opstadgogn -fabrics. See the Viking era ABC for details.

Something you might have to ask itself is how common this type of
trousers has been during the Viking era, and which has led them. Much
evidence is that the signals the wearer's social status in any way, and apart
from that they probably have cost much to manufacture, they can also view
the group. We have also used ordinary straight trousers, probably, they
have been common.

Some findings suggest that it has had an iron ring reinforced holes along
the bottom edge byxornas. These have been with small iron hooks hakat
established a form of gaiters, of which it may have wrapped their PUTTIE.

These pants are fitted with footstraps, lined with linen, so that with a strap
to keep them up at the hip.

Pour

Here you can see the fine texture formed in this type of kypertvv, which
was very popular during the Viking era.

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Vikingtida SQUIRE

PUTTIE

The use of PUTTIE have the findings spread judging has been a common
feature of northern Europe during the Viking era. They are usually woven
and has about 7-10 cm in width. These PUTTIE are hand woven using the
same technique, density, etc.. which the archaeological findings. The
reconstruction, however tvtrdigt yarn where the originals have Single.
The blue color could be easily achieved with WOAD.

Here we can clearly see a pattern, or texture, of the fabric, called

fiskbensvv after appearance. Like other common fabrics during the
Viking era, it was considered that it was beautiful with clear textures.
These could be seen because the material was not valk or treated in any
other "tovande" way.

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Shoes

Vikingtida shoes are a separate chapter. Usually deals with descriptions of Viking footwear, the so-called
Osebergskngan, named after a find in osebergsskeppet.

The characteristic shoe is pointed both front and rear, as a boat, and it will be very functional. The tip rear
hide the seam from being worn in that location at the heel where you usually wear out shoes first. This
type of shoes are common during the viking age, but disappears from the 1100-century.

Therefore, during archaeological excavations often time determine remnants of this type of skofynd, the
so-called "point-artefacts".

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