Posted on 08/31/2013 7:14:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I think it says Woolrichsen
Three little kittens lost their mittens and they began to cry.
It took a lot of labor to grow the sheep, shear it, clean and card the wool, spin it, and then ( finally) knit it up.
Snow free pass?
Aw? You mean there might have been global warming even then?
Probably discarded during a period of global warming. That’s why This type of heavy wool garment is called a sweater.
Not knitted. Knitting was invented only about a thousand years ago.
Surprising, because knitting requires infinitely infrastructure than the looms and such of weaving, so more suitable to nomads, one would think.
Good & helpful information; didn’t know that about them. Thanks.
Interesting.
I hadn’t thought about that at all.
Are there carnivores in Norway?
I would guess wolves, but I can’t recall ever hearing about bears or big cats in Scandinavia.
Native South Americans have simple, portable looms that produced a majority of their garments.
However, it is a little surprising that knitting didn’t come along sooner. Maybe the concept of weaving is just overwhelmingly intuitively superior. On the other hand, perhaps it was something to do with the flexibility of yarns.
Possible scenario. Hunter had been out in the rain/crossed a river/whatever, and laid garment out to dry. During night camping, major snow storm struck. Had to go home without shirt, got killed, who knows. Questions: Was garment laid out or crumpled (could have fallen off load or pack), was it on ground/rock or on top of snow? This would add useful information for conjecture.
Norway’s glaciers were apparently much smaller at the time of this sweater (between 230 and 390 A.D., with 400 AD roughly marking the end of the Roman Warm Period). See the graph in this paper on Norway’s glaciers (http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.jp/2013/06/new-paper-finds-norway-glaciers-much.html).
So Zeestephen’s comment (”...this migration path had to be snow free for decades, or even centuries, before the sweater was left there”) would fit.
At least they didn’t say 230 and 390 CE.
Yes, and I am thankful for that.
But they did say:
“Currently, approximately 50 fragments await dating and analysis and, as global warming progresses, more can be expected.
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