[Regia-NA] oats and barley and wheat

[Eileen Young]

I can't get the link to work.  Is there another source of the pictures?

"Schuster, Robert L." <SchusterRL@umsystem.edu> wrote:

>There are a couple of baskets from Norse contexts in the Viking Age and both
>seem to have used the same construction techniques and materials. What that
>is exactly, you're asking the wrong person. But if you find something that
>looks like them, get two! ;>
>
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>On manræden,
>Osweald of Baldurstrand
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/California_Viking_Age
>http://www.geocities.com/baldurstrand/
>
>
>
>--I gleaned this from one of the bizzilion online lists:
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>There were, it seems, at least 2 baskets (or dishes) remnants found
>with the Oseberg ship, and a picture of these remnants with information
>about them is in the Norwegian book:
>
> OSEBERG DRONNINGENS GRAV: Vår arkeologiske nasjonalskatt i nytt lys
> (1992; 294 pages)
> by Arne Emil Christensen, Anne Stine Ingstad and Bjørn Myhre
>
>The picture in this book is on page 118, and of which I have put 3
>pictures of it on this webpage:
> http://www.infinet.com/~delayne
>
>This picture in the book has the caption:
>  "Det ble funnet rester av minst 2 kurver eller fat bundet av tæger."
>
>The following information is on page 116:
>  "De eldste restene av kurver i tegerfletting som vi kjenner
>  til her i landet, er også fra Oseberg. Det er rester av
>  flere flettinger med forskjellig tykkelse på tegene, men
>  dessverre er det ikke mulig å si noe sikkert om hvor store
>  kurvene har vært, eller hvilken fasong de har hatt."
>
>My translation:
>  The oldest remnants of root-woven baskets that we know about
>  here in the land (Norway) are also from Oseberg. There are
>  remnants of several weavings with various thickness of the
>  roots; but, unfortunately, it isn't possible to say anything
>  certain about how big the baskets had been, or what shape
>  they may have had.
>
>At the Maihaugen museum in Norway, one of the items on display
>is a small woven basket made of birch-roots.
>
>
>I cant remember where but there are pics of the remains of the Oseberg basket online somewhere (in one of the Yahoogroups I think.)
>
>Hope this information helps some.
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