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Viking shoulder bag after a historical find from the Viking town Hedeby / Germany. Made from fabric and wood in 27 x 25 cm. Productdetails...
Viking shoulder bag from Hedeby.
That practical Viking shoulder bag was made according to historical finds from the Viking town Hedeby which is situated in northern Germany.The Viking shoulder bag is made from fabric and attached with two wooden parts of wood.
The Viking shoulder bag from Hedeby has the measure 27 x 25 cm.
The Hedeby bag is well known in the world of Viking re-enactment as a bag made of fabric or leather that is attached to two carved pieces of wood on which there is attached a shoulder strap. The name derives from the Viking city of Haithabu (Hedeby) in northern Germany, which was the second-largest city in the north during the Viking era.
Even if there are no finds of completely preserved bags from the Viking Age, the functioning of later finds of very similar bags of the Sami in Lapland is derived.
In addition to the Hedeby bag handles, similar parts from Birka in Sweden and Viborg in Denmark are also known. The bag bars from Hedeby were made from ash and maple and were between 18 and 49 cm long and 7 to 13 mm thick.
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