pæll, m.n: a pall, covering, cloak, costly robe; purple, a purple garment. (“pal”)
Image of Thomas Becket from Medievalists.net.
Category Archives: things to wear
heals-brynige
heals-brynige, f.n: a gorget (throat armour), a hauberk (long defensive shirt, usually mail). (“hey-als-brihn-ee-yeh”)
heals-mene
heals-mene, m.n: a necklace, chain for the neck. (“hey-als-meh-neh”)
Anglo-Saxon necklace at the British Museum. Photo by Kotomi Creations (some rights reserved).
calc
calc, m.n: sandal, shoe.
Image from a Medievalist.net article on medieval shoes. They are leather sandals used in early medieval Egypt sometime between 400 and 600 AD.
grīma
grīma, m.n: a mask, visor, helmet; a spectre, ghost, dreadful apparition. (“gree-ma”)
Image by Wikipedia user Geni: The Sutton Hoo helmet, now at the British Museum.
tēagan
tēagan, wk.v: to dress, to prepare.
I learned this one at the Finsbury Park Wordhord upon meeting a little girl named Teagan. You can see her name (partially cut off) at the bottom right…
sweor-bēah
sweor-bēah, m.n: a collar, band or chain for the neck, necklace.
Image: The Snettisham Torc, now housed in the British Museum. A torc is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together. Many seem designed for near-permanent wear and would have been difficult to remove.
scēo
scēo, m.n: shoe.
Image: Vikings wore soft leather shoes and boots. This particular boot is more than 1000 years old and was found in Coney Street, York. It’s rare for organic materials like leather to last for so long. You can even see the toggle fastening.
grǣghama
grǣghama, m.n: coat of mail; ‘gray-coated one’, also understood to be wolf or sea-bird (mew/gull).
healsbēag
healsbēag, m.n: necklace, neck-ring, torque.
Image: The Great Torque, from Snettisham, Norfolk. Made of eight ropes twisted together, each rope made of eight strands of gold.
