i was sick the past three days so i made this for you guys :) welcome to the weird medieval guys build your own medieval outfit!!! open this thread to find out what your outfit would be in the middle ages......
disclaimer: i tried to only use original, extant medieval objects but sorry if some repros snuck in. also, some of the weapons are 16th century, sue me etc etc etc
anyways, let's get started!!!
first, choose a cool medieval jacket based on your zodiac sign!! (1/3)
aries | taurus
gemini | cancer
(2/3)
leo | virgo
libra | scorpio
(3/3)
sagittarius | capricorn
aquarius | pisces
okay, now choose a piece of jewellery based on your birth day!! (1/2)
1-4 | 5-8
9-12 | 13-16
(2/2)
16-20 | 21-24
25-28 | 29-31
okay, next you need to choose a bag based on your favourite season! (autumn bag is a replica but of a real one!)
spring | summer
autumn | winter
last, you obviously need a weapon! choose whichever one you like :) (1/2)
(2/2)
boom that's it!!!! anyways pls share your outfit i want to see all of them!! hope you had fun!
this is mine btw :)) i think it's very tasteful
btw sorry there are no trousers, all the extant medieval trousers look like this
and more often they just wore hose
btw leos are NOT allowed to complain about being naked bc that robe is BIG!!
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time to talk about my favourite guy, victorian poet william barnes, who tried to replace foreign loan words in english with "pure germanic anglo saxon" ones that he made up. such as:
he clearly disliked the -ology suffix and had plenty of alternatives to suggest, using the germanic suffix -lore (a relative of the german word "lehre"):
drawings by a 7 year old boy named "onfim" (originally on birch bark), from novgorod, modern day russia, 13th century
i really like this one, which shows a monster and the caption "i am a wild beast", while the text in the box reads "greetings from onfim to danilo" (who was probably a friend of onfim!)
@fakehistoryhunt has done a whole thread about onfim!
there is a myth in europe that hedgehogs use their spines to carry fruit home. while this isn't true, people have believed it for millenia--in part because it's such a cute idea!!
in honor of harvest season, here are my fave medieval depictions of the hedgehog harvest 🍎🍎🍎