The color plates are from Vecellio's costume book, but the site and text
are Norweigian. The picture in question of the spinning woman has the
text attached in Italian and Latin, with a Norweigian translation on the
side.
I have some Italian and Latin, almost no Norweigian, but here's a sense of
the text:
Northern Women- In the north, where it's night for two or three months,
in order to provide light, women of a middle station carry bundles of wood
in their belts to burn like candles. They wear long dresses of heavy cloth
and carry a bag for the linen they are spinning, and carry a lit stick in
their
mouths to light their way when they go spinning on the road.
I missed a few words, but it's definitely not a pipe.
-Helen/Aidan
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