The Egtved Girl

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[Little Bill]

The Egtved Girl

In 1921 a burial mound at Egtved was excavated. In it was found a completely preserved coffin, and inside it lay a 16-18 year old girl about 160cm (5’4”) tall, slim, with long, loose blonde hair and carefully trimmed nails.

For burial she had been laid in the coffin, fully dressed, on top of a cow-skin. Her upper body was clad in a loose bodice with elbow length sleeves and around her hips she wore a knee length skirt of string.

On her braided woollen belt were a large, spiral-decorated bronze disk with a spike and a bronze comb. Small pieces of woollen cloth were wrapped about her feet.

She wore bronze bracelets on her wrists. A bundle of rags containing the burned bones of a 5-6 year old child (perhaps a sacrifice?) had been placed at the end of the coffin.

At the head end there was a small box made of birch-bark containing her hairnet, an awl and a few bronze pins among other things.

Before the coffin was closed the girl’s body had been covered by a woollen blanket and a cow-skin. On this a bark bucket had been placed, containing a fermented drink, a kind of beer or mead brewed from what, cranberries and honey.

Before the coffin was closed a sprig of flowering yarrow was dropped into the coffin, showing she was buried during the summer. Dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) has shown the burial took place in the year 1370BC.

The Egtved girl’s outfit was reconstructed for the National Museum of Denmark at the Lejre Archaeological Centre a few years ago, and shows that in many ways the outfit looked remarkably modern.

[Vendome]

You'd hit like the Gong Show?

 

Well here you go Chuck!

 

[Vendome]

I was designed to keep her warm.

[Vendome]

I was reading the first sentence and thought I should call you a dork.

Then I go to the 2nd sentence and realized you were virile and rational Man.

LOL

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Interesting stuff.

[Erasmus]

"I have to turn my head until my spinal column hurts."

≤}B^)

[Red_Devil 232]

Yeah I was worried about that first line painting me in the wrong light! Hey she must have been a wild gal .... buried with a bucket full of cranberry/wheat beer! Maybe she served it in bronze mugs at the local mico-brewery?

[Lizavetta]

I was designed to keep her warm.

Of course. Among other things. :)

[Vendome]

LOL, OMG. Where ya been?

[SgtBob]

Roger that, Skipper!

[votemout]

Thanx for the post

[Vendome]

ROTFLAMBO

I was thinking the little chastity shield thingy might be fun to play with. LOL

[Smokin' Joe]

At the age of 16-18 she was a woman, not a mere girl in those days.

It is only in the last 100 years we have begun to perceive someone between 15 and 21 as a 'child'. That perception is largely the result of cultural changes since the industrial revolution. Before then young men of 14 were clearing their own farmland.

[Lizavetta]

Here every day. How are things with you?

[Vendome]

Fab, Baby. Just another day in paradise. Usual San Jose winter. Rain, Rain, Rain and Cold, then, Viola’! 67 degrees and everyone in shorts.

[West Texas Chuck]

And young Jack Daniel was driving a team and delivering barrels of whisky at I think age 13. I read that somewhere.

[Tainan]

Egtved Girl w/pics ping

immensely hittable

[Little Bill]

At the age of 16-18 she was a woman, not a mere girl in those days.

I think that the String Skirt meant that she was available and breed able, see second link, if terms and conditions were met, see Tactus, Germanica.

[SunkenCiv]

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I have to turn my head until my darkness somethingthatrhymes*

I have to turn my head because my inseam hurts...

[Little Bill]

Where the hell were you when we talking about mating practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, we needed your input! Blam and I are old and can only think of our youthful antics.