<b>Boots</b>
"It was important for a warrior to wear good quality shoes. These boots are inspired by finds from Ladoga and Haithabu. The fastening is simple and made from leather knots.
Viking age shoes were often made from goat leather but these are made from bovine leather. These boots have double layers of leather held together with seams at the edges. The soles are multi-layered.
Boots this thick have, as far as we know, never been found among the archaelogical material, and it is probably not a very plausible reconstruction. Cultural layers are mostly composed of thrown-away items and one has to question what kinds of shoes would have been thrown away. Thick leather can be recycled as soles and large pieces of leather like the ones in the bootleg can be used for other shoes.
Even among medieval finds boots are rare but contemporary pictures prove their existance. This is probably because the large leather patches have been recycled for other objects and this may well have been practiced during the Viking age as well."
/AngusStatistik: Postat av Angus Maciomhair — 3 juli 2004, 15:01
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