His
Highness and I would like to invite you all to join us in this
year's Garb
Challenge for Birka. Put on your thinking and research hats, because we hope you will enjoy getting creative with this year's theme: MYTHOLOGY! Any Pantheon! Any culture! All styles!
So after considering several cultures I settled on a Finnish Goddess with her outfit based in the Iron Age.
"Mielikki is the Finnish goddess of
forests and the hunt. She is referred to in various tales as either the wife or
the daughter-in-law of Tapio, and the mother of Nyyrikki and Tuulikki.
She is said to have played a central role in the creation of the bear."
First image of Mielikki used for inspiration
Woven ribbon I chose for the triple wrap belt
for the over apron
The plan is to adorn the ends with Iron
Age/Viking Age wire coils at each end. So I carefully unwove about a foot at
each end in preparation to attach the coils once I made them
Traditional and Ancient ways of wearing
adornments varied from region to region and differed from Norse Viking groups.
The Finns had the two amulets that secured the overdress but there was a center
medallion or brooch over the breastbone. Most of these stones came from my stash
as did the center pin (Originally gifted to me by Amy Lindsay). I really like
the bone center piece that I found in a jumble box.
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