Hi Aylwen, I just did a very very superficial check on Geman sites. In short, I found out that the Vendish were a Slavic tribe/people and closely related to the Sorbs. There is still a minority in eastern Germany. Vendish and Sorbish appear to have the same roots, but during the GDR the Sorbish culture was pampered while the Vendish were neglected, so that there is more information about the Sorbish than the Vendish. So says the website of the Vendish minority, unfortunately in German only, but they might answer an English inquiry. http://www.diewenden.de/ But perhaps the Sorbish can help you with what you are looking for? This site has information in English: http://sorben.com/sorb2/ Then there´s a region called "Wendland" in Germany which has villages in a traditional Vendish shape, the "Rundlingsdorf". One of them has a village museum in one of the old farmhouses. They might have information about costume in that area, however they appear to have mostly 19. century things: http://www.luechow.de/index.htm?baum_id=5154&inhalt_id=112641 If the link does not work directly, here´s the museum´s contact address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hope this helps, Hanna At 02:15 26.03.2008, you wrote: >I am currently researching costumes/clothing that would have been worn >by the Vendish people. Does anyone here know what they might have worn >as a special outfit that might now have been considered a folk >costume, considering they have now been assimilated into German >society. >Thanks, Aylwen >_______________________________________________ >h-costume mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
