[Regia-NA] broad-brimmed hats?

[Hrolf Douglasson]

you're all southerners to me:)
vara
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From: "Nicholson, Andrew" <andrew.nicholson at dumgal.gov.uk>
To: "'list-Regia-NA'" <list-regia-na at lig.net>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] broad-brimmed hats?


> > Anyway, I have burnt arms and it's still just May. The Viking
> > period was in
> > the midst of the mini warm period and I assume that the
> > summers were pretty
> > hot - maybe the squint was a popular style at the time.
> >
>
>
> You're burnt because you live in the south-east of England, where they've
> got water shortages and drought warnings :-). ...and you've got
peelly-wally
> skin!
>
> Up here in Scotland - much closer to Norse latitudes - we're still getting
> an inch or two of rain a day and our reservoirs are nearly full...hmmm,
> maybe we could sell you some for a wee consideration? Maybe that's why
loads
> of our 8th-10th century carvings show people in hoods and hooded cloaks
> [though everyone knows that Scots only put on a t-shirt when it gets below
> -30 :)  ]
>
> Guthrum
>
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