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Woven into the Earth

by Else Ostergaard

One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921 - a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon Tutankhamun's tomb - when Poul Norlund recovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes, Greenland. Preserved intact for centuries by the permafrost, these mediaeval garments display remarkable similarities to western European costumes of the time. Previously, such costumes were known only from contemporary illustrations, and the Greenland finds provided the world with a close look at how ordinary Europeans dressed in the Middle Ages. Fortunately for Norlund's team, wood has always been extremely scarce in Greenland, and instead of caskets, many of the bodies were found swaddled in multiple layers of cast-off clothing. Eighty years of technical advances and subsequent excavations have greatly added to our understanding of the Herjolfsnaes discoveries. In Woven into the Earth , Else Ostergard recounts the dramatic story of Norlund's excavation in the context of other Norse textile finds in Greenland. She describes what the finds tell us about the materials and methods used in making the clothes. The weaving and sewing techniques detailed here are surprisingly sophisticated, and one can only admire the talent of the women who employed them, especially considering the harsh conditions they worked under. While Woven into the Earth will be invaluable to students of medieval archaeology, Norse society and textile history, both lay readers and scholars are sure to find the book's dig narratives and glimpses of life among the last Vikings fascinating.

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The Norse Greenlanders suddenly and enigmatically disappeared from South-Western Greenland where they had lived for almost 500 years until c.1450. Fortunately, the Greenlandic soil has preserved a unique cultural heritage from the Norse settlers. Here is a complete catalogue of Norse textile finds from the 28 sites excavated by Danish archaeologists in the past 200 years. The book tells the exciting story of one of the 20th century's most spectacular archaeological finds: the excavation of the Herjolfsnæs graveyard in 1921 where, because wood has always been extremely scarce in Greenland, bodies had been buried in multiple layers of cast-off clothing instead of coffins. The occasional thaws had permitted crowberry and dwarf willows to establish themselves in the top layers of soil. Their roots grew through clothing and corpses alike, binding them together in a vast network of fibres-as if the finds had literally been woven into the earth., English, Year2004, Illust. B/W76, Illust. Color165, ISBN8772889357, Hardbound, In Pristine Condition, Bibl. Index. Pages296, Size13” x 8 1/2” 1. See more details about Woven Into the Earth. Textiles From Norse Greenland

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