Harald Hardrada - The last viking king of the North

[Steelkilt]

5F123804-8B6E-4178-AE35-264D02A0600C.jpgI ran across this article- check out the clothing on the Viking king, sure looks kilt-like to me!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...493745156.html

[Touchstone]

5F123804-8B6E-4178-AE35-264D02A0600C.jpgI ran across this article- check out the clothing on the Viking king, sure looks kilt-like to me!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...493745156.html

It certainly does. And the king looks like he might be about to suffer from some friendly fire from the fellow in the boat below him.

On a vaguely related topic: The world's oldest pants ...
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...culture-origin
(... were already pretty sophisticated; and were worn below a belted tunic.)

[Ninehostages]

I believe that he was known as "Blue Tooth" and hence the Viking rune that is used as the Bluetooth® logo.

[Bruce Scott]

This is how he is depicted in a stained glass window in the Lerwick Town Hall:



The garment he's wearing looks like some form of tunic.

[DCampbell16B]

This is how he is depicted in a stained glass window in the Lerwick Town Hall:



The garment he's wearing looks like some form of tunic.

Possibly a tunic or some type of padded armor. The illustration is very similar to images on burial stones at Iona.

[Bruce Scott]

I believe that he was known as "Blue Tooth" and hence the Viking rune that is used as the Bluetooth® logo.

"Blue Tooth" was Harald Gormsson. It was Harald Sigurdsson who was known as "Hardrada", which roughly translates as hard ruler or stern counsel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Hardrada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth

[Tomo]

As Bruce Scott says - 2 different Harolds (beat me to it).

I was recently in Denmark and visited the Jelling Rune Stones. Great museum, it's adjacent to the burial mounds of Gorm the Old and Harold Bluetooth.

I don't think the viking on the bridge in the original post is meant to be Hardrada - instead it depicts a famous moment in the battle of Stirling Bridge where an exceptional tall, lone, viking held the bridge for some time, until one of the saxons was able to float under the bridge and attack him from below.

He prob. isn't wearing a kilt - as we know it - but I understand that the word comes from Old Norse meaning to pleat or gather.

[neloon]

As Bruce Scott says - 2 different Harolds (beat me to it).

I was recently in Denmark and visited the Jelling Rune Stones. Great museum, it's adjacent to the burial mounds of Gorm the Old and Harold Bluetooth.

I don't think the viking on the bridge in the original post is meant to be Hardrada - instead it depicts a famous moment in the battle of Stirling Bridge where an exceptional tall, lone, viking held the bridge for some time, until one of the saxons was able to float under the bridge and attack him from below.

He prob. isn't wearing a kilt - as we know it - but I understand that the word comes from Old Norse meaning to pleat or gather.

No Vikings at Stirling Bridge - a few centuries too late! How about Stamford Bridge
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba...tamford_Bridge

Alan

[Touchstone]

it depicts a famous moment in the battle of Stirling Bridge where an exceptional tall, lone, viking held the bridge for some time, until one of the saxons was able to float under the bridge and attack him from below.

And I thought I was making a joke about perspective in medieval art!