My understanding of this was that they were chain mail covered leather shoes. The feet were the most vulnerable part when fighting in shield wall and many references are made to having some form of metal on their ‘fighting shoes’
Fred Enga
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Sent: July-06-07 9:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [norse_course] nalbinding reference
<nods, pauses, stares off into space for a while>
<Hms and haws> Ok, thing 1: I've been planning to make a pair of nalbound shoes... I don't see any particular reason why it would be unlikely. (cloth top shoes seem to be au courant just about everywhere, and we have more v-age soles than we have uppers, as far as I know.)
Thing 2: Shoes made of cow-legs sounds reasonble to me, save that that sounds like shoes made of scraps, and the rest of his clothing is pretty impressive sounding. Or is there a good reason to make shoes of leg-leather?
Any ideas on the second element of the word other than "cow"?
I'm still feeling like I have more possible interpretations than I want.
Totally off-side interpretation which has no grounding in anything but that I've seen them in the archaeology: could we be talking about Embroidered shoes?
Thanks!
-Unnr
On 06/07/07, Fred and Grace Hatton <hatton@...> wrote:
While CV has one definition of
fit as the edge or hem of a sock, knitted
things, etc as well as fitja upp to begin knitting,
it seems unlikely one would actually have shoes made of nalbinding.
More likely it is the idea of shoes made of "fit." One of the
definitions
of "fit" is the leg parts of the hide - - perhaps because of the
natural
shape of the back leg or for some symbolic meaning which the biblical
reference in CV suggests.
http://www.northvegr.org/vigfusson/155.php
Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa
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