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Priests, monks, burghers and peasants - how did they dress in the Nordic countries during the Middle Ages? What materials and colors were used? Which changes of fashion occurred?Knowledge of the medieval manner of dress must be drawn from visual and written records - art, provincial statutes and court findings, supplemented by the all too few examples of surviving textile material. Else Marie Gutarp presents a compilation of the extensive, albeit widely-scattered material - an invaluable guide for workshops, theater groups, organisers of medieval festivals and interested readers in general.The book also contains diagrammed cutting patterns for several simple medieval garments. Else Marie Gutarp is a qualified textile designer, who has specialised in the study of the medieval dress and fashions, mainly in connection with her assignment as head of the dressmaking workroom producing costumes for the Annual GotlandMedieval Week.The Annual Gotland Medieval Week is one of Northern Europe's largest living history events, which takes place in August every year. Activities are arranged all over the island of Gotland and in the World Heritage Town Visby.

För mer än tusen år sedan, under den tid vi kallar vikingatid, levde på ön Gotland en fjortonårig pojke som hette Torbjörn. Han bodde på en gård, inte långt från hamnen i Vi på öns västkust. På gården bodde också hans föräldrar Knut och Sigrid, två småsystrar, farmor Astrid och en farbror som hette Ulf. Ja, far var ju inte där nu, för när Torbjörn bara var nio vårar seglade fadern iväg med sitt skepp och hade inte setts till sedan dess. Torbjörn saknade sin far, saknade hans stora varma famn och alla berättelser om vikingafärder i österled. Så börjar den spännande berättelsen om Torbjörn och hans färd långt bort till det fjärran Bulgar för att söka efter fadern.

Gotland is fascinating in many ways, not least due to its enormous wealth of fossils derived from the time when this part of the world was situated on more southerly latitudes near the Equator, and a tropical coral reef thrived in the area where the island is located today. Sara Eliason, palaeontologist at the County Museum of Gotland, describes and explains the most ancient history of the island and the life of the organisms whose remains form its present-day limestone rock. Drawing on her many years of experience as a leader of “fossil rambles”, she presents a lucid description of the sea floor environment of that time – more than 400 million years ago, and of the places where fossils may now be found. Sunstones and catskulls are popular names for two common fossils found on the island.