[Regia-NA] Re: Jorvik shoes and toggles

[Yolli]

You know, I have been to Hedeby three times, and I so wish I had done so
even once with my digital camera. As I recall they have only a few shoes
on display, but those with toggles ( which were child sized and three
toggles ) were definitely handed and not so ill defined as to be
anything other than a left in this case. I guess a specially arranged
visit might throw more light on this.
 
As for the Jorvik finds, my personal observation from the drawings ( can
be misleading I know ) is one toggled on the inside and the others on
the outside – for what it’s worth. I could check with Museum of London
to see if they have any I could play with. Maybe toggles were a Northern
thang…..!!!! ;-)
 
All the info on the Middleburg boots is all I had to hand I’m afraid. If
the book is hiding any more I’ll let you know. I think that following
the seams theory may let you down at some stage too.
 
Cheers, Roll.
 
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Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] Re: Jorvik shoes and toggles
 


Yolli <yolli at lineone.net> wrote: 
Sorry for the delay.
 
I’ve had a trawl and those references are pretty thin on the ground.
Thanks for your efforts :-)
 
Other than the Jorvik shoe, there are examples in Hedeby – these are
without doubt handed shoes and the latchets are on the outside of the
boot. There could be more than one example too as I don’t have the
leather report which no doubt is only in German….. Also, there is the
whole upper section with three toggles like the one from Hedeby from
Elisenhof ( Germany? ).
 
 
There are two boots from Middleburg just off the coast in the
Netherlands. They had just one toggle also on the outside of the shoe.
Do you happen to have a citation for those beasties?
 
I’m pretty sure that even at York, there were I think three toggled
shoes.
The York fascule on Leatherworking is what got us off on this... in it
the author claims that all found lached shoes do so on the inside...
 
You can source most of these via Margrethe Halds Primitve Shoes. As for
theHedeby shoes, you’ll only get the info from the Hedeby series of
publications and get your German dictionary out.
 
I have a German speaker who might be willing to help me out... :-)
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