I came across this news item, and thought it might interest some group
members:-
"Women who lived in the major Viking settlement called Birka in the 9th
and 10th centuries dressed in a much more provocative manner than
previously believed. ... When the area around Lake Mälaren was
Christianized about a century later, women’s dress style became more
modest, according to archaeologist Annika Larsson."
It's from "The Local - Sweden's News in English"
http://www.thelocal.se/9950/20080211/
What a pity there are no pictures of the reconstruction!
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.)
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