These handouts
are a reworking of a webpage by Mistress Gunnvör (Gunnora) Sílfrahárr.
Mistress Gunnora hosts
The Viking Answer Lady
website.
She
has graciously allowed me
to use her
web page
as
the basis for
my class handouts. You can find the web
version of
her work
at
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/vikbeads.htm.
Apollonia Voss also maintains a website dedicated to SCADIAN jewelers. You can see bibliographies, link lists, projects and all class handouts at URL http://jewelryhistorian.com/sca/
As shown in Fitzhugh , Wm. J. and Elisabeth I. Ward. Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga. (page 120 fig. 7.4) Washington. Smithsonian Institution Press. 2000. Photo from University Museum of Cultural Heritage, Oslo.
Caption: This extraordinary hoard containing a gold trefoil brooch from Frankia, a large golden neckring from Russia, Arabian, Byzantine, and English coins, and other items of the finest craftsmanship, which may be been collected in Paris as insurance against future Viking raids, was deposited in a bog in Hon, Norway.
© 2003 Apollonia Voss
&
Mistress Gunnvör Sílfrahárr (The Viking Answer Lady) M.K.A. Christie Ward
Please contact Apollonia for permission to reuse or post.