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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coolest thing i have done recently: walk through an abandoned medieval hillside village in greece whose 33 churches have been maintained by local monks as shrines to various saints
my friend and i were like “it feels like there is a high chance we find something spooky” and literally the next one we went in was filled with human bones which i guess isn’t necessarily creepy but was a surprise
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!